Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
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People used to think of me as a comedy actor.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
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I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.
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Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
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I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.'
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If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.
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On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.
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What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
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No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.
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Mehr Licht!
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Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.
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Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball - sometimes I'd sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.
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I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself a spoken word poet.
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Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.
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At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, 'You gave hope to other balding men.' My new epitaph: 'Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly.'
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Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.
