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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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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've just gotten to do a lot of very different things, and as an actor, that's what you want.
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Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
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Red lipstick aside, I firmly believe that less is more in terms of make-up.
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I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.
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The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.
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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.
