Hippolyte Taine Quotes
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.
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Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
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My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me bad news all the time, I can say, "You know what? I don't want to hear it." If its just gossip, you know, I can choose not to hear it. And that, in effect, can control my mood.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
