Baruch Spinoza Quotes
I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.
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Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.
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I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
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After that father's death I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without fear that it would cost me dearly in pain. At the age of five I had become a skeptic and began to sense that any happiness that came my way might be the prelude to some grim cosmic joke.
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.
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The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.
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I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.
