D. H. Lawrence Quotes
That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.
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Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
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Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.
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That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.
