Rene Descartes Quotes
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.Rene Descartes
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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.
Quincy Jones -
I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
Kat Graham -
It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
Calvin Johnson -
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger -
Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
Daniel Craig -
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
Aaron Johnson -
Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
Warren Rudman -
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
Malcolm Arnold -
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
Ferran Adria
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I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.
Harmony Korine -
The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.
Barton Gellman -
Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
Kate McKinnon -
I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
Eavan Boland -
I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
Natalie Merchant -
When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.
Lady Gaga
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Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.
Marilyn Hacker -
Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
Sam Phillips -
I only write in blue ink.
Kat Graham -
I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.
Alex Garland -
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes