Richard Wagner Quotes
The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
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It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which I think is entirely too long of a title.
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White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.
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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
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I have fans all around the world.
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The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.
