Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.
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Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
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Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.
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With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
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I prefer shooting on location, just because it always helps you. You go some place, you put your life on hold even more than when you've settled in some place. You can make a new life so it opens yourself up to the make-believe and the imagination in a way when you aren't burdened by things that remind you of your life all the time.
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We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.
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I learned how to cross-country ski.
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James Bond was an early favourite, although I didn't understand much of it. I read the Bible a lot, too. You might say that this was my favourite, since I seemed to read it so often.
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'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'
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The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
