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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
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We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.
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Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.
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It is hard for me to know what to paint. It comes slowly.
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In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.
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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.
