Rene Descartes Quotes
I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
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Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.
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I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.
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It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
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I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
