Gregory Walter Graffin Quotes
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
Uta Hagen
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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
Ferdinand Mount
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. Henry
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
Natsuo Kirino
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To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
Adam Clarke
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
Man Ray
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To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.
Karl Liebknecht
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I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.
Macaulay Culkin
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Vernon Howard
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I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.
Laura Marling
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
Philipp Meyer
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The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence - and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.
Carl D. Anderson
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...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.
Alexander Berkman
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The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
Ang Lee
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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.
Lewis H. Lapham
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The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.
Oprah Winfrey
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Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.
G. Frank Lawlis
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.
Anthony Giddens
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Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They would have said, "Look, horses have been part of human existence for 5,000 years. We are horse people. It's permanent." But all of a sudden, the internal combustion engine comes along and, with it, oil fields and automobiles, which basically replace the horse completely. So we often have these long periods of stability and then a sudden inflection point.
Reed Hastings
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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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If I'm going to be working out two hours a day, I may as well have a goal... and I'm pretty competitive by nature. A triathlon is a new fun thing.
Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann
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For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.
Gregory Walter Graffin
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