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.
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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.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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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.
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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.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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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.
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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.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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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.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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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.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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Looking silly can be ver powerful. People who are committing and taking risks become the king and queen of my prom. People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.
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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
