Victor Cousin Quotes
The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.
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This notion that Americans have. . . that they don't have to do anything other than be American in order to lead - that's very pervasive in the culture, it goes very deep into how they see themselves here.
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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery.
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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
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I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.
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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
