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.
Avi Lewis
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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.
Samuel George Morton
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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.
Jack Ma
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To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
Randy Pausch
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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.
Edgar Lee Masters
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And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
P. G. Wodehouse
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Albert Camus
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Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
Bradley Whitford
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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.
Dick Van Dyke
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I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict what he would do, where he would be, who he would be. And it's sort of interesting because Eleanor Roosevelt never writes about her mother's agony. She only writes about her father's agony. But her whole life is dedicated to making it better for people in the kind of need and pain and anguish that her mother was in.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
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Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child
Hayao Miyazaki
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Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
Rebecca Solnit
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It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.
Haruki Murakami
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The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns;
The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown,
And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort,
And mar the face of beauty, when no cause
For such immeasurable woe appears;
These Flora banishes, and gives the fair
Sweet smiles, and bloom less transient than her own.
William Cowper
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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.
Avi Lewis
