Winston Smith Quotes
Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.
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There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.
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Modesto tamen et circumspecto iudicio de tantis viris pronuntiandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quae non intellegunt.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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I have, perhaps, too professional a point of view where deaths are concerned. They are divided, in my mind, into two classes - deaths which are my affair and deaths which are not my affair - and though the latter class is infinitely more numerous - nevertheless whenever I come in contact with death I am like the dog who lifts his head and sniffs the scent.
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Today, girls,' said Miss Renshaw, 'we shall go out into the beautiful Gardens and think about death.
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Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
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I don't give a crap about clowns.
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Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.
