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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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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I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.
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I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.
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I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.
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Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.
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My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!
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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
