Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
Ian Hacking -
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
E. F. Benson -
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde -
I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
A. R. Rahman -
'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
Kapil Sharma
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
Ted Danson -
I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
Edmund Hillary -
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
Laura Linney -
So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn't get to world-build enough. I don't think I did enough work explaining how the world came to be, and while I'm planning to go more into it, I'm a greedy writer, and I'm always going to wish I had more room to delve into the complexities of a fantasy realm.
Victoria Aveyard -
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustine
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
Wendelin Van Draanen -
When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
Garrett Hedlund -
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
Candace Bushnell -
The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
Mandy Moore -
I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
Rachel Joyce
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
Kapil Sibal -
Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
Marcus Aurelius -
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
Barbara Goldsmith -
After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?
Nancy Farmer -
I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.
Ashlee Simpson -
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Baruch Spinoza