Rene Descartes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.
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Wonder is the first of all the passions.
