Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.
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You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.
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I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.
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I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.
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It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
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Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.
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Our culture is so obsessed with the idea that you're going to go through a crisis or some difficult event and come out the other side a changed or improved person, and I just think that if you're honest, that often does not happen, and in fact, it shouldn't happen.
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I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
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Maxima superbia vel abjectio est maxima sui ignorantia.
