Kahlil Gibran Quotes
My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying. Your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it. My thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve. You have your thought and I have mine.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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It's good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.
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'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.
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I kind of like being depressed.
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There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.
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People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.
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Benzedrine often helps a case run.
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I call this The Dictator Syndrome. You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it. But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator-having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
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But in cherishing all that is best in the land of your origin, and in desiring the highest welfare of the people of the old home, the question arises as to how that result can best be secured. I know that there is no better American spirit than that which is exhibited by many of those who have recently come to our shores.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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I don't want to fail by being conservative; I want to fail by doing something no one has ever done.
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My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying. Your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it. My thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve. You have your thought and I have mine.
