Baruch Spinoza Quotes

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

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• I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Knowledge
  • Movies
  • Legacy

• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• 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.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Know
  • Child
  • Moment

• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• I need instant gratification.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Need
  • Instant
  • Gratification

• The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Together

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

  

  U Thant
  • Men
  • Love
  • Compassion

• In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Important
  • Business
  • Know

• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • World
  • Family
  • War

• In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Business
  • Reading

• Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

  

  Carey Williams
  • Change
  • Daughter
  • Farmer

• I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Start
  • Make
  • Come

• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Place
  • Underdog

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• Tech is all about building human connections.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Human
  • Building
  • Connections

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• Things happen, I thought, and we respond. That's what it all comes down to. To believe anything else, as far as I could tell, was simply an illusion.

  

  Alice Steinbach
  • Believe
  • Things
  • Happen

• Our culture today that we live in is getting so diverse, yet in Hollywood, there's not a lot of diversity.

  

  James Wan
  • Live
  • Today
  • Culture

• There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Work
  • Garden

• As an actor, I don't know what I'm doing. I've never known what I was doing. I show up the first day, I'm scared, and I just hang out. It's like being in detention - you just wait for it to be over. Then gradually I start to figure out what's going on.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Waiting
  • Scared

• The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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