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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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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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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The reason I like doing these acting projects is because no matter how much acting I do, I'll always have music in my life. I love having both.
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Donald Trump is about the rise of right-wing extremism, not only in this country, but in Europe.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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The way I stand up to bullies is with kindness and love. Because I think that's what they really need. They're misunderstood and probably really upset themselves.
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The Oculus Studio stuff is going to remain exclusive to the Oculus store and platform. That's not to say that you'll never be able to play it on other hardware, but it very much is exclusive to the Oculus platform.
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There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient.
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Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.
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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.
