George Santayana Quotes
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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I love poker!
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.
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When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.
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The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
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It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.
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I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.
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To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
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Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material.
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If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.
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Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world - you don't need to be your own worst enemy.
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Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.
