Paracelsus Quotes
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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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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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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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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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I'm just a worker.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.
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Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
