Will Durant Quotes
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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Harry Potter is awesome.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
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Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.
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When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brainthat is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.
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Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
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Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
