Baruch Spinoza Quotes
We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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You were born as the one you are.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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Look, when I got in trouble in school I got in trouble at home. Now when kids get in trouble at school, the teacher gets in trouble. So the families are important.
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I don't approach my movies with a target audience in mind. I try to make something that's true to the subject matter as much as possible, while still being entertaining and fun.
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I love America, but I've now got two young kids and America has changed so much since 9/11 and Bush. It's beyond Orwellian. The idea in '1984' that if you keep saying you're being attacked then you can get away with anything has come true.
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The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or men who love living.
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We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
