Will Durant Quotes
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
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I've got a serious-looking head.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
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I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.
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To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
