Ariel Durant Quotes
Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
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Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
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Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
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I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
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The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.
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I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.
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To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.
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If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!
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Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.
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I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.
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O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!
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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.
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I don't listen to music throughout the day very often. I don't own a record player. I don't really have a stereo system. Most of the music I listen to these days is on the web or on MySpace pages, stuff like that.
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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
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When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.
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There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
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You are my love story, and I write you into everything I do, everything I see, everything I touch and everything I dream, you are the words that fill my pages.
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So many people want to live their lives and their dreams through their own Facebook page or their Twitter page. They want to show every detail of their life to everyone in the world. That scares me because I don't have any Facebook page or Twitter I don't like it, I don't want it.
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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.
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Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in
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Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
