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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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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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'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.
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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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If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
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You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
