Rene Descartes Quotes
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
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To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
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I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'
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You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.
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I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
