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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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
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I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you.
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It's all mostly effort when it comes to this game. Maybe some of the younger guys don't have that sense of urgency we obviously need to win basketball games. I think as far as talent we have enough to get over the hump.
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Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.
