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 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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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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So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.
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The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dining room is exquisite, with immaculate service and ornate details.
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Creativity is Inspiration having fun.
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A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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So I go to the long adventure, lifting My face to the far, mysterious goals, To the last assize, to the final sifting Of gods and stars and souls.
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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.
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I actually find Los Angeles, in the daily sense, a quite normal place to live. It is certainly contingent upon how normal the person living there might be. I don't think you have to look far in any city to see people looking for the right answer in the wrong place.
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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.
