Ludovico Ariosto Quotes
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When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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For me, the greatest thing a movie can do is rivet you while you're watching but also give you something to chew on for days and weeks after you've seen it.
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People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.
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In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.
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What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
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Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.
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My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
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It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.
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I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.
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'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.
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They have so many great horror movies made in the '80s. I mean, the old-school horror is so good.
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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Having your own space is getting rarer and rarer these days. It's dangerous giving someone like me - who grew up fantasizing about studios and records - the freedom and resources to build your own studio. I would just live in it, which is what I pretty much did for all of the '90s.
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If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.
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For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply "today."
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Ben che stia mal che l'uom se stesso lodi.
