Andre Gide Quotes
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.
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If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
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Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
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He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell.
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There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees, And they certainly annoy each other, But they certainly enjoy each other, Yes, they pretend to flout each other, But they couldn't do without each other...
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.
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Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear.
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I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.
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I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.
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I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.
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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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I cannot believe – and I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable – that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face the evidence in favour of something unwelcome. It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
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For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.
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When I was studying photography, I became interested in conflict photojournalism, and that got me interested in lighting. Then I realized there was this amazing thing called cinematography where you could kind of tell more complete stories photographing for film. So I ended up going to AFI grad school for that.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
