Catherine the Great Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.
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The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
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I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?
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I want all of you to know that I intend to beat this disease. And further, I intend to ride again as a professional cyclist.
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I just like the themes it's exploring. In the way my character says, 'I want us to become brothers again, like we used to be.' I really like that line, and it means a lot to me. I just find there's a lot of things like that in this movie that have that feeling. There's stuff that feels exhilarating.
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… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
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Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns, Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous, Eliciting the still sustaining pomps Of speech which are like music so profound They seem an exaltation without sound.
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I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.
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People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people.
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Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.
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Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.
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I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.
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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
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That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I will live to make myself not feared.
