Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
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As elsewhere in his writing, Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, Romeo and Juliet, the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.
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I was a tomboy as a child! I wanted my daughter to be a scrapper and not so dainty.
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I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.
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Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
