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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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'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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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
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The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
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I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.
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You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else's energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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It took the Fire Brigade a day and a half to secure the remains of the house enough to recover Crew Cut’s body, which was described by Dr Jennifer Vaughan as ‘suffering from crush trauma’ and by Dr Walid as ‘mostly flat’.
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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'.
