Algernon Sidney Quotes
We live in an age that makes truth pass for treason, and as I dare not say anything against it, so the ears of those that are about me will probably be found too tender to hear it. This my trial and condemnation do sufficiently evidence.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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The Black Lives Matter movement has to, by its very nature, be intersectional because of the complexities of who black people are in this country and throughout the world.
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I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second.
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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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I always tend to say "no" to everything, but now I've decided to say "yes" to everything. Now, I'm doing all sorts of things that I would've said "no" to before.
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We live in an age that makes truth pass for treason, and as I dare not say anything against it, so the ears of those that are about me will probably be found too tender to hear it. This my trial and condemnation do sufficiently evidence.
