Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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Intellectual capital drives financial capital and growth.
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Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore.
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Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.
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Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs.
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.