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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Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet-only science would put them on the same tree.
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The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.
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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.
