Bertrand Russell Quotes
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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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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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.
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Well, sometimes love seems easy. Like..it's easy to love rain...and hawks. And it's easy to love wild plums...and the moon. But with people, seems like love's a hard thing to know. It gets all mixed up. I mean, you can love one person in one way and another person in another way. But how do you know you love the right one in every way?
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In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'
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Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.
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My personal philosophy is, talk about whatever you want on a show, but it better be good. And especially if it's something that challenges folks. You don't want to be on the side of power to demean a group that is at risk. Because that's propaganda. Whenever you're on the side of power, you're not making art. Art upends power.
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
