J. Arthur Thomson Quotes
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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People trash talk me.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
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I became an air display pilot. I used to teach it. I was an examiner for a few years as well. It was great fun. I would still be doing it now if pretty much everyone I knew who was doing it hadn't died. In the first team I joined there were six people in it. By the time I stopped, there was only me and one other left - everyone else had died.
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Looking back, Google's success came from the fortuitous timing of being born at the cusp of the broadband age. But it also came about because of the new reality of the Internet: a lot of services were going to be algorithmic, and owning your own infrastructure would be a key advantage.
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I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
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There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.
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Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?
