Adriaan Kortlandt Quotes
Behind their lively, searching eyes one senses a doubting, a contemplative personality, always trying to make sense out of a puzzling world.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.
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Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.
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Deus seu Natura
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Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
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I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.
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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
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The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.
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It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.
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Behind their lively, searching eyes one senses a doubting, a contemplative personality, always trying to make sense out of a puzzling world.
