Baruch Spinoza Quotes
The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.Baruch Spinoza
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
Garry Trudeau -
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson -
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
Laura Mennell -
NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
Frances Beinecke -
The less you have, the more you enjoy.
Carine Roitfeld -
I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
Patricia Cornwell
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Samuel Butler -
All of life is a foreign country.
Jack Kerouac -
I'd love to make a thriller.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
Olivia Thirlby -
Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
Kara DioGuardi
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
Iris Chang -
I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
Yani Tseng -
I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
Zendaya -
People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
Park Chan-wook -
I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
F. Murray Abraham -
They really make sex into such a horrible thing and how terrible anything related to sex is, but isn't that why we're all here? We wouldn't be here at all if two people in our past hadn't been horny for each other, that's how it works. So we can't continue unless people keep being horny for each other, that's just the way it is.
Brad Warner
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I think it's a really powerful time right now for women. There's a lot to say and women are being heard…
Carmit Bachar -
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Ram Dass -
Without alteration there can be no improvement.
Emma Willard -
The chapter ends by showing that nuclear war more closely approximates the model of torture than the model of conventional war because it is a structural impossibility that the populations whose bodies are used in the confirmation process can have exercised any consent over this use of their bodies.
Elaine Scarry -
The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
Baruch Spinoza