Baruch Spinoza Quotes
The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.

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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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She's not even referred to until her husband's death in 1903. And even then it's only as 'Mrs. William Dewey.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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I'm not saying I came up with anything laughs. It's like people thinking we would be more real if we went onstage in jeans and T-shirts. How ignorant is that, to think that because they don't wear a suit onstage that someone is giving you the real deal? People do come and see us and think, 'Look at all these gimmicks.' Go ahead, man. Go ahead and think that.
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But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.
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Philip Marlow: You're the girl in all those songs. De-dum.Nurse Mills: What songs?Philip Marlow: The songs, the songs, the bloody, bloody songs.Nurse Mills: I wish I knew what you were talking about.Philip Marlow: The songs you hear coming up the stair.Nurse Mills: Sorry?Philip Marlow: When you're a child, when you're supposed to be asleep. Those songs.
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The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.