Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
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I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.
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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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I don't mind having people over, but it's weird how much more withdrawn I've become than being social in public places, I guess.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
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Serena Williams is the ultimate champion. She knows what it takes to get to the top.
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We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.
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Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
