Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
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Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
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The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.
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At the Rugby World Cup, you don’t just get supporters from the two nations playing each other but you get supporters that are just interested in the progression of the world cup, who love the game, who love the spectacle of the world cup matches and they love seeing some of the smaller nations, too.
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
