Virginia Woolf Quotes
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Quotes to Explore
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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My whole philosophy has been to let the work speak for itself, because that's really what you want to show.
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
