Will Durant Quotes
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
Will Durant
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
Natalie Gulbis
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
J. B. Pritzker
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I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
iO Tillett Wright
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
K. A. Applegate
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It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.
Zack Snyder
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
E. L. James
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
Kate Moss
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
Laura Linney
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
Ban Ki-moon
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Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out, 'What's the policy, what's the substance?'
Valerie Plame
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
Olga Korbut
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
Kapil Dev
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I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.
Ian MacKaye
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I'm a little untidy, and my favorite color is gray, and I'm always scurrying around in a panic.
Olesya Rulin
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I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them.
Karan Johar
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What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.
Jack Vance
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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
Albert Einstein
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When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it.
Anthony Hemingway
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In Ali change creation faith growth hope humor life living Muhammad Ali transformation wonder.
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.
Richard K. Morgan
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
Will Durant
