Will Durant Quotes
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
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Music / I let it wake me / take me / Spin me around and make me / Uh get down.
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And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.
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Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
