Rene Descartes Quotes
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A woman should be an illusion.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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You've got to have steel in you somewhere.
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Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
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Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?
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I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
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I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.
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What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
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I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found, has a way of taking a man pretty much at his own rating. If he permits his loss to make him embarrassed and apologetic, he will draw embarrassment from others. But if he gains his own respect, the respect of those around him comes easily.
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
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Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not good measures of the value of what we have done, it should be enough for any of us that as far as we can tell, in some small way we have made humanity's future better rather than worse.
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He lives well who is well hidden.
