C.P. Snow Quotes
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C.P. Snow
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
F. Murray Abraham
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
Abbas Kiarostami
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
W. Clement Stone
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
Laura Dern
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
Haile Gebrselassie
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
Ed Harris
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
Natalie Babbitt
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
Natalie Cole
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
Pankaj Mishra
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
Patrick Lencioni
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
Dan Webster
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I've always been happy with my body.
Venus Williams
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I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.
Jeremy Renner
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So, in early 2019, when the avowedly arch-conservative TV station chain Sinclair Broadcast Group obliged its stations to run a "documentary" on vaccines, claiming to reveal previously hushed-up information on "one of the biggest medical controversies of our time," it knew it was pandering to the paranoia of the members. Among mainstream media, it is a business bias toward controversy and the principal sin of laziness, this direct assault on truth is an anomaly. In social media, it is a business model.
Bob Garfield
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And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.
Anne Holm
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C.P. Snow
