E. M. Forster Quotes
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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I suppose there is hardly any one in the civilized world - particularly of those who do just a little more every day than they really have strength to perform - who has not at some time regarded bed as a refuge.
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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
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The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
