Ariel Durant Quotes
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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I suppose books are my real passion in life.
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.
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We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.
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As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!
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It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
