Idries Shah Quotes
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
Dallas Roberts -
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
Sam Kean -
For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
Caitlin Doughty -
What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
Walter Annenberg -
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset Maugham -
No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
Walter Cronkite
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
Ralph Fiennes -
It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
Adam Arkin -
I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
Kate Winslet -
I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
Naomi Klein -
If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
Octavia Spencer -
I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
Harlan Coben
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
Jack Lowden -
I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
D. B. Weiss -
It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
Hans Jonas -
Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
Cameron Diaz -
I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
Ted Cruz -
If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
L. E. Modesitt
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My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.
Vanessa Lachey -
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
Jackson Browne -
I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
Candace Bushnell -
Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
Tama Janowitz -
Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
Kate Micucci -
You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
Idries Shah