Rene Descartes Quotes
In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
Quotes to Explore
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
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I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
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I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
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In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting.
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I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.
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In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
