Zooey Deschanel Quotes
Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.
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Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
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That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.
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It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.
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Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'
