Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.
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But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.
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The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.
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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
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What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude.
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Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
