Aleister Crowley Quotes
Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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When I got really sick and needed a stem cell transplant, I was fortunate to have a twin sister as the donor.
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Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.
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Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn't as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
