Avi Lewis Quotes
The book and the film This Changes Everything fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
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When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
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The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.
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And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
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Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
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When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.
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When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
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First and foremost, note that Plato always wrote dialogues, and never attempted to produce a theoretical or scientific treatise. This is a big clue for me. From beginning to end, Plato was aware of the limits of theoretical and technical reasoning, and his dialogues are a massive exploration.
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People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.
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The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
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The book and the film This Changes Everything fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.
