Samuel Pepys Quotes
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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What people need to know is that if you don't eat what you want, then you'll just continue to eat, because you're not fulfilled.
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But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.
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Societies such as ours that once had democratic traditions or periods when relative openness was possible are often the most easily seduced into totalitarian systems because those who rule and build totalitarian structures continue to pay outward fealty to the ideals, practices and forms of the old system.
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Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.
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Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
