Ambrose of Optina Quotes
Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.
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You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
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Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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When I arrived, a hundred women were there auditioning... I raised my voice three registers, curled up in a chair, licked my hand and did ‘meow’s ,the director said, 'I didn’t tell her to do any of that stuff' – but the next day I got the part. Caesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, I was so lucky to work with all of them.
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
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I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.
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To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.
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It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.
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I want to wake up next to what I went to bed with. I need a girl who can get dressed up to come with me to things, but also one who isn't afraid to get her fingernails dirty or chip her nail polish.
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If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.
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There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
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Acting is just such an incredible art form.
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I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.
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31: Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
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I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.
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Oh, it's the first big thing I've really done. My first job out of college was working with Steven Soderbergh. I was telling my acting teachers, "I did it, you guys!"
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Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
