Charles Fried Quotes
If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.
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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
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I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.
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There is but one evil, ignorance.
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If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.
