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 think it's so important to be healthy and confident and natural. And not put too much stress on trying to be thin - I don't get the thin, thin thing at all.
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In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.
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The reason we have so much talent in Silicon Valley building and investing in for-profit technology companies is that markets richly reward successful ideas, no matter who invents them. But to remain competitive in a free market, companies must exercise discipline to meet quantitative goals and eventually become cashflow positive.
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My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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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.
