Will Durant Quotes
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
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I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
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I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.
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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
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My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
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I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
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I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: 'What now? How to proceed?'
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
