Baruch Spinoza Quotes
This endeavour to do a thing or leave it undone, solely in order to please men, we call ambition, especially when we so eagerly endeavour to please the vulgar, that we do or omit certain things to our own or another's hurt : in other cases it is generally called kindliness.Baruch Spinoza
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
Washed Out -
The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
Otis Williams The Temptations -
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Samuel Beckett -
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
Garry Disher -
Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.
Jackie Earle Haley -
Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.
Banks
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There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
R. Lee Ermey -
I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I'm a bed monster.
Natalie Dormer -
At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.
F. Sionil Jose -
I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
Damien Chazelle -
Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.
Edith Widder
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I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
Verne Troyer -
Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.
Harold Ramis -
There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
Patrick Modiano -
I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.
Bill Rancic -
You want your privacy as a human being.
Peter Dinklage -
I'm not even Indian-American: I'm Indian-Indian. Everybody expected me to have henna and a nose pin and talk in an accent like Apu from 'The Simpsons.' I was nervous because I wasn't sure if America was ready for a lead that looked like me.
Priyanka Chopra
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
Salman Khan -
Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
You can't plan to reach another person on a deep level, it just happens. So those are the moments that I think I really live for.
Hayley Williams Paramore -
This endeavour to do a thing or leave it undone, solely in order to please men, we call ambition, especially when we so eagerly endeavour to please the vulgar, that we do or omit certain things to our own or another's hurt : in other cases it is generally called kindliness.
Baruch Spinoza