Gabriel Cousens Quotes
Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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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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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus.
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We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.
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We grew up near a cinematheque in Cleveland, so we were very influenced by international cinema, the French New Wave, Italian neo-realists.
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Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
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Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.
