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.

Rene Descartes

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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.

  

  Finn Wittrock
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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.

  

  Jack Kelley
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• The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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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.

  

  Tamala Jones
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• The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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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.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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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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• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

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• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
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• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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.

  

  Adam McKay
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• The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.

  

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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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• O skies, be calm! O winds, blow free - Blow all my ships safe home to me! But if thou sendest some a-wrack, To never more come sailing back, Send any - all that skim the sea, But bring my love-ship home to me.

  

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• I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.

  

  Pope Theodoros II
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• For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
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  • True

• Sometimes you have to shake the tree in order to make things happen. And if that has a political cost, I will take it, as long as it saves lives.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
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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.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • True
  • Trust
  • Senses