Andre Gide Quotes
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.
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I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
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But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.
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Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
