Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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I think celebrities suck.
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What you can't imagine, you can't discover.
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I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag.
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A man given to vice is always an idealist.
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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
