Northrop Frye Quotes
One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.

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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
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I have heard of that idea i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that I would be replaced by the oncoming generation, and that they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.
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The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.
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O fading honours of the dead!O high ambition, lowly laid!
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In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been emminent in that profession?
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.
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Even though you're in charge, you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show. Look at comments about shows and tell me if I'm wrong. Look at shows like 'The Walking Dead' and the ownership that the audience has of that show.
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I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.
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I know everybody thinks I've got the final veto and/or approval of somebody, and I guess I do, ... But he and linebacker Clint Ingram by far and away had all the votes. That tells you that guys who are working with him every day believe in him, too.
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What is a company that believes in good, clean family entertainment doing making R-rated pictures.
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One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.