Neal Ascherson Quotes
Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
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Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
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I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.
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I'm a pacifist by nature.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.
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True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.
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The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
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Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.
