Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Et sane arduum debet esse, quod adeo raro reperitur. Qui enim posset fieri, si salus in promptu esset et sine magno labore reperiri posset, ut ab omnibus fere negligeretur? Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia, quam rara sunt.
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We're meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited.
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Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
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There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.
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To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
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The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.
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As an actor, you're lucky if you get a month before a project starts. There are times when you get a day before a project starts. So to be able to really sit and inhabit that mind and the story is really beneficial, and it really helps for me to be able to then compartmentalize as we're shooting and detach and go somewhere else.
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I'm a hockey fan; I watch hockey, and I listen to the news.
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The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
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I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)
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Et sane arduum debet esse, quod adeo raro reperitur. Qui enim posset fieri, si salus in promptu esset et sine magno labore reperiri posset, ut ab omnibus fere negligeretur? Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia, quam rara sunt.
