Thomas Hobbes Quotes
The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
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I think some women try to make you feel you're not all female because you haven't given birth. There are a lot of prejudices. Some women think women who have animals are deeply sad, because what they really want is a child. Mind you, there's probably an element of truth in that.
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Anderson [Cooper]first of all, in case anybody's wondering because they'll somehow read my mind after this broadcast ... I find those comments to be disgusting and reprehensible, and I'm really glad that he apologized.
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It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.
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My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty
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The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
