Baron d'Holbach Quotes
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.
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Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
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The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
