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.

  

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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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• If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

  

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• Creatively, I just like interesting characters. So straight, gay, or whatever - like, whatever, wherever the characters are coming from or their lifestyle.

  

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• It became kind of a fad in the late '70s to try to help people wake up out of comas by hearing things that they liked. I remember we sent out about six tapes. We heard that we were this one kid's favorite band so we sent a tape that said, "Hey this is Motörhead. It's time to wake up."

  

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• We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North.

  

  Elizabeth Dole
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• Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of 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.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • True
  • Trust
  • Senses