Samuel Alexander Quotes
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.
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I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.
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It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.
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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
