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 want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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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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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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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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My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
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What I've noticed in this game is how EA has even duplicated my moves and my style of play perfectly. It is really incredible and a lot of fun to play.
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My first job out of college was with HBO. I worked in a small sales office in Chicago. So, I can say that even when I was just a little, low-on-the-totem-pole assistant for HBO, they were always amazing.
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I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out. What if one day these stories become something stronger, more real, than fairy tales?
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One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.
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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.
