Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
Quotes to Explore
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
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The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
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I'd like to keep our kids in their schools. I'd like to keep our young men and women in jobs.
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Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.
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When I set out to write a screenplay, I have in my mind a beginning and an end but that end part continually changes as I start to write the middle. That way by the time the screenplay is finished I have taken myself and my audience from a familiar beginning point through the story to an unfamiliar ending point.
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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
