Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I need instant gratification.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else.
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You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.
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Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth. Our job is to be true to Him, Hi-His word and His commandments, and we should assume humbly that we're confused and don't always know what we're doin' and we're staggerin' and stumblin' towards him and have some humility in that process.
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This Laodicean cant of tolerance.
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
