Confucius Quotes
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.
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A blouse that hits at the hips or above will keep you from seeming shapeless in a flowy skirt.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.
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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
