Misha Collins Quotes
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.
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I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.
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I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It's important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people's love even when they're not there in front of you.
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It's fun to see people blow through their own perceived limitations.
