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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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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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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Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
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Bisexuals are gay people - we're all gay. Some people don't like that.
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We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
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Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all.
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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.
