Paracelsus Quotes
God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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Empathy is one of our greatest tools of business that is most underused.
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A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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While men are what they are; while they have bad Passions to be roused up: while ruled by men; While all the powers and treasures of a land At beck of the ambitious, wrongs may be Offered, with insult; yea, while rights are worth Maintaining; freedom keeping, or life having, So long dread I, the sword shall shine.
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God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.
