Allan Kardec Quotes
You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Video has become much more social, and as a result, there are many opportunities to use video as a way to connect people, to give them opportunities to play and participate, to make things together and have a shared social experience. I think we are just at the beginning of really exploring what social video is and what we can make of it.
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I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!
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It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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Wie die Senatoren der Römer sind die wahren Künstler ein Volk von Königen.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.
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That is precisely what we should have expected, since Genet wants to live simultaneously creation, destruction, the impossibility of destroying and the impossibility of creating, since he wants both to show his rejection of the divine creation and to manifest, in the absolute, human impotence as man’s reproval of God and as the testimony of his grandeur.
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I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart.
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You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.
