Rene Descartes Quotes
Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
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A few months into my research, General Petraeus, who was then leading Central Command, invited me to go for a run with him and his team along the Potomac River during one of his visits to Washington. I figured I could interview him while we ran.
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Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.
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Venturing further than the length of your sightOut past the reach of your beginningsThere is a gamble in each proud act of flightBut the losses pale before the winningsCircling and diving with this freedom you’ve foundIllusion blows apart and scattersThere is no darkness in this place that we're boundLove is the only thing that matters
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Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.
