Xenocrates Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.
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I like all types of music. Even though rap music is 80 percent of what I listen to, it's not the only thing I listen to.
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When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.
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A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.
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Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.
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Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.
