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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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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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 thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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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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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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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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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
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I'm actually really obsessed with Bruce Springsteen.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
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It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
