Rene Descartes Quotes
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
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There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
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The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective medium for violence. Which is something that I'd always written in songs, but the violence always sat strangely within a song. And I was always interested in the way in which you listen to murder ballads and things like that - these weird lines would kind of come out, like, I drug her by the hair or something - that sat weirdly in the song. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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It's all about having fun. Play hard and fair, don't hurt anybody. Feel good about what you're doing and how you're doing it.
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It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
