Rene Descartes Quotes
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
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The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
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I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.
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I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.
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I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.
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If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.
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When Nancy Reagan was presented with people who she really felt like weren't going to judge her, there was such a floodgate of affection and warmth and physical affection that, most of the time, was kept at bay because, "Oh, someone's going to say something." I think that because of so many things that happened to her in her childhood, but also in the press.
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You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.
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A man's tailored jacket is like a compartmentalized storage unit with sleeves. Women eye those pockets with envy while searching for a ticket stub lost in a handbag.
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The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
