Baruch Spinoza Quotes
I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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I think one of my favorite things about making low budget movies is that when you get into expensive moviemaking territory, it's almost impossible not to reverse engineer the movies. It's irresponsible not to think about the result and the financial result. But when you make low budget movies, you can put that out of your head.
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We all have a private world in which we live; that's the place where nobody comes; alone with our secret thoughts. Our own spouses oftentimes don't know what we're thinking. In our private worlds, it's only you and the Lord, who searches our hearts and knows our anxious thoughts.
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This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
