Baruch Spinoza Quotes
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.Baruch Spinoza
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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
Gary Ross -
I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
Edgar Wright -
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Irving R. Kaufman -
Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
Gabrielle Giffords -
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
Yuri Milner -
I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
Mahershala Ali
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
Gayle Forman -
When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
Pamela Meyer -
So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
Gavin DeGraw -
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
Gail Sheehy -
I've got good speed off the edge.
Malik Jackson -
Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
Halima Aden
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
Jackee Harry -
In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
Ingrid Betancourt -
People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
Damon Hill -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
Nathaniel Branden -
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
Walter Martin
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
Magic Johnson -
My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
Victoria Justice -
We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
C. V. Raman -
He's just a good kid. I didn't understand half the things he was telling me, but it was fun.
Lee Iacocca -
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch Spinoza