Carlos Castaneda Quotes
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.
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People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.
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Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.
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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
