Baruch Spinoza Quotes
I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.
Baruch Spinoza
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
Carl Andre
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I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
Imelda May
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
Maika Monroe
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
Zoe Kravitz
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
Yann Tiersen
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I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
Mahesh Babu
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
Maajid Nawaz
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
Uzo Aduba
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
Kate Hudson
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
Wangari Maathai
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
Sam Walton
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I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.
Claudia Schiffer
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I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
Billy Wilder
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You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.
Jordan Peele
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I'm literally nowhere yet... When things started going well, this French designer called Ami gave me some shoes and clothes to wear. But when I sat down to play the piano, the very new shoes kept slipping off the pedal. So I took them off, threw them away, and have never worn shoes while playing the piano from then on.
Benjamin Clementine
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Traumatic experiences do leave traces, whether on a large scale (on our histories and cultures) or close to home, on our families, with dark secrets being imperceptibly passed down through generations. They also leave traces on our minds and emotions, on our capacity for joy and intimacy, and even on our biology and immune systems.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.
Baruch Spinoza
