Augustin-Jean Fresnel Quotes
Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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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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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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A lot of comedians are selfish.
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When you hear a story, do you believe only the nice parts? Truth isn’t like a baked fish, where you can eat the flesh and leave the bones and skin. You have to eat it all.
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He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase,Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude and apprehension,As if the waves at last were never broken, As if the language suddenly, with ease, Said things it had laboriously spoken.
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I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.
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I didn't get to experience proper autumn until I was eighteen and heading off to college on the East Coast!
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My entire life can fit into a knapsack.
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I moved to Spain, and at all the tournaments I'd play, I would be really good in my age. That made me realize that I could be a pro.
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Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
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And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
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Having a personality now is a good thing, and bowling has grabbed a different audience than we've had for a lot of years.
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In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.
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Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.
