Olaf Stapledon Quotes
Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
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As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.
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Perception creates behavior. Perception encourages behavior. And because this institution-this artifice-continues to socially reinforce patterns of perception and behavior, if this behavior is destructive, it may not be a bad idea to eliminate or curtail the institution.
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Islam religion has no color distinction, we are just Muslims.
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Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.
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Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.
