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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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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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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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 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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Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.
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Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.
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'Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea,' said Japhy. 'Remember that book I told you about; the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.'
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What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
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You go see a great production of 'Romeo and Juliet,' where those kids are full of life and love, you hope and forget.
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Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.
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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
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All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.
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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.
