Washington Irving Quotes
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.
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Is there someone I look up to? Uh, yeah. Um. I look up to John Ritter, just because, I guess, he's a physical comedian. Um, and I enjoy that.
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
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I like women who talk smack.
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Over the past decade a combination of diverse forces has created a significant increase in the global supply of saving -- a global saving glut.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
