Rene Descartes Quotes
How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can't, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do. And this in a way is easier because with God's help you can command your will when you can't command your feelings. With us, feelings seem to be important, but He doesn't appear to agree with us.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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Destiny doesn't exist. It's God we need, and fast.
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How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?
