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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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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I'm working my way toward divinity.
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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.
