Baruch Spinoza Quotes
If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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It's a myth that you have to wash your hair all the time.
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If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
