Alfonso X of Castile Quotes
Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read!
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.
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When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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We are the storytelling animal.
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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.
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May I borrow your wheelbarrow?— I didn't lay down my life in World War IIso that you could borrow my wheelbarrow
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Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
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I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.
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A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
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Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
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Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read!
