Susanne Langer Quotes
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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I'm pro Union.
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The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
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It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
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Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.
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The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.
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Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . .
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No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.
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The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.
