Will Durant Quotes
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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Human beings are religious animals.
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You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
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There's two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they're two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that's going to be their favorite disk.
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My whole childhood, that made my skin curl. I was looking for something authentic. I think that drove me into the arts, I really do. That really did it. The only other thing that made me survive, as a human being, was getting into the arts. I was surrounded by people that were very bright and they invited you in. They were gracious. So, it gave me a great education.
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The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.
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He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.
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It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
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To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.
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The sunflower is mine, in a way.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.
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Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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As human voice and instrument blend in one harmony, as human soul and body blend in each act of feeling, thought, or speech, so, as far as we can know, divinity and humanity act together in the thought and heart and act of the one Christ.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
