Baruch Spinoza Quotes
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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To control your hormones is to control your life.
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In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.
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The silly antics that would get me in trouble at school have put me on the best-seller list. So I guess the moral here is ignore your teach... never mind. That's not the moral. Probably.
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It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.
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The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
