Virginia Woolf Quotes
It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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All of my businesses are profitable.
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.
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I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
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Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
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The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.
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It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .
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The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
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It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.
