Baruch Spinoza Quotes

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

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• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  

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• Speech happens to not be his language.

  

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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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• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

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• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

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• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

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• Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.

  

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• I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

  

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• I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

  

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• When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

  

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• People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

  

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• Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.

  

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• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

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• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

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• Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

  

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• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

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• The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

  

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• Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

  

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• I like a messy hotel room. It's a little slice of home.

  

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• I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.

  

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• I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

  

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• If I'm going on any trip, driving music is key. Road Hammers is good driving music. I don't mind listening to my own stuff. You record it for a certain reason. You fall in a love with a certain song at a certain time and how you record it is a labour of love. You better love it.

  

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• I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • Affected
  • Insofar