Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
Damien Chazelle -
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
E. F. Benson -
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
Harold Bloom -
But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
E. O. Wilson -
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Jack Horner -
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Zedong
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
Cameron Dallas -
From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
Taya Kyle -
Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
Dan Hill -
Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
Joanne Rowling -
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.
Randy Hultgren -
I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
Francesca Annis -
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
Kate Millett -
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
Sam Harris -
Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
Sam Shepard -
It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.
Zhou Yongkang
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I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.
Peter Capaldi -
I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
Oliver Reed -
Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.
Kenneth C. Griffin -
If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.
Albert Einstein -
History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it starts to become more and more complicated, which is not the stuff of Hollywood films. Complications tend to break down the budget.
Christopher McQuarrie -
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
Thomas Hobbes