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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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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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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My childhood was appalling.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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On a pure entertainment level, if I'm going to choose to listen to a presidential candidate speak on a Saturday night, it's going to be Donald Trump over Bernie Sanders by a landslide!
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The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.
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What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
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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.
