Antal Szerb Quotes
We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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For favorite games, I have sentimental feelings toward the Nintendo 64. I don't know why, but that period just resonates with me - 'Goldeneye' and 'Ocarina of Time' and 'Rogue Squadron.'
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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I can cure AIDS, and I will.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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I write what I write.
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We need to understand the difference between freedom of religion - which is absolutely guaranteed and I would fervently defend. Sharia law is politics; it's not religion. If you say that a woman is voluntarily going to be of lesser value than a man, which is in sharia law, can we allow that?
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.
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Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
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It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.
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It is time to remind Sharon that the star of David belongs to all Jews, not to his repulsive Government. His actions are staining the star of David with blood. The Jewish people, whose gifts to civilised discourse include Einstein and Epstein, Mendelssohn and Mahler, Sergei Eisenstein and Billy Wilder, are now symbolised throughout the world by the blustering bully Ariel Sharon, a war criminal implicated in the murder of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila camps and now involved in killing Palestinians once again.
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Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him.
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I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.
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Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.
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We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.
