Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I won't join another band again.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing is to prove that it is not possible to disprove it, since it will tell you not to waste your time trying to disprove it. That's what Gödel did for the Continuum Hypothesis.
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My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all true." At the same time, I could have written much more about us, but I didn't want to go any further. I did cut things out. There are certain things that I wrote about her that are so gushing with praise and admiration that when I looked at those passages I realised they would be ridiculous to anybody else.
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Life is a dream, realise it.
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I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.
