Baruch Spinoza Quotes
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
Quentin Tarantino
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
Mamie Gummer
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
Sam Hunt
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
Vera Farmiga
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
Ada Yonath
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
Sam Graves
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
Victoria de los Angeles
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Carlos Fuentes
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I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.
Jackie Walorski
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
Oliver North
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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
Jack Welch
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Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.
Mao Zedong
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
F. Lee Bailey
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For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.
Geoff Dyer
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God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
Saint Augustine
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza
