Anais Nin Quotes
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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Free love sounds great.
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I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
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By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at the right time. To remain as emotionally free from the hurly burley of the here and now is one of the only ways to succeed.
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
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The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
