Rene Descartes Quotes
We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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Knowing is the same thing as the inner voice.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.
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We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
