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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I'm very superstitious, and I think it's bad luck. You don't have to show your love by tattooing it.
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I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.
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A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.
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I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
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Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam.
