Will Durant Quotes
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
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Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!
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Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view – I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.
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I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!
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I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.
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I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.
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Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services and all those things that will help lower the cost and increase the ease of doing business across the region.
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The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.
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I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
