Lucretius Quotes
O miseras hominum mentes, o pectora caeca!qualibus in tenebris vitae quantisque periclisdegitur hoc aevi quod cumquest! nonne viderenihil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut quicorpore seiunctus dolor absit, mente fruaturiucundo sensu cura semota metuque?
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
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People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.
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If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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The art world as a whole, and museums in particular, belong to what has aptly been called the 'consciousness industry.'
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Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.
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The thing about the Star Wars expanded universe that most impresses me is how the need for endless sequels has taken what was way back in the late Disco a fairly upbeat series where the good guys eventually prevailed and turned into a crapsack setting that's grimmer than the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Congo Wars I & II and the Mongol Conquests combined.
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O miseras hominum mentes, o pectora caeca!qualibus in tenebris vitae quantisque periclisdegitur hoc aevi quod cumquest! nonne viderenihil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut quicorpore seiunctus dolor absit, mente fruaturiucundo sensu cura semota metuque?
