Gabriel Cousens Quotes
Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I have an incredible phobia of divorce.
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ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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I always wanted to be a mom.
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
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Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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This radical Islam is a religious-based ideology. And you actually have to, when you deal with the ideology, you have to attack it on that basis.
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Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.
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We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?
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If I die without food or without eternal salvation, I want to die without food.
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Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.
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You can't look back at the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes that started in 2008 and not have some important lessons about the critical nature of oversights in financial markets and institutions.
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Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.
