Walter Pater Quotes
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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I don't really yell at people.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I accept the verdict of the people.
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We're not going to see an exclusively robotic factory, but we will see the optimum use of robots and people.
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I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.
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You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
