Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Quotes to Explore
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I would like my kids to study well.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I love action movies.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
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In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.
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Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.
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You don't go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I'm wearing or what my new hairdo is. You come to see Primus for the musical experience and the visual experience. I think, anyways. Maybe I'm wrong!
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
