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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Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city.
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I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.
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The people I coach are very successful people, so it's very hard for winners to not constantly win. Even if it's trivial and not worth it, we still want to win - because we love winning. It's a very deep habit.
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I was born in 1928, so in 1943, 1944, we had the war in Rome. There were a lot of hardships, a lack of food, many shortages. So when I worked with the Americans, the English, and the Canadians soon after the war, when I played with them, they paid me with food. That will give you an idea how widespread poverty was at that time.
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To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.
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Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.
