Lucretius Quotes
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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People really don't understand what actors do.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now from television rights, there's no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, 'smoked salmon and Bach.' (Now, sixty years later, my answer would be the same.)
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The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you can’t play nothing or sing nothing.
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There are common-sense things that your government could do that would give Americans more opportunities to succeed. Why don’t we do it? Because powerful special interests and the tendency to put ideology ahead of political progress have led to gridlock in Congress.
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Religion is a species of mental disease. It has always had a pathological reaction on mankind.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
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I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.
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At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled... until the next.
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Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk - I was with young girls in south Africa - understanding why our tools for prevention aren't being adopted, and what way may need to invent to help protect them.
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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
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I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.
Garry Kasparov -
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam.
