Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes
Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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It's those damn critics again.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.
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I've learned how to adapt to different cultures and understand all different walks of life. I've also learned that confidence is key, even if you have to fake it at times. Fake it till you make it, as they say.
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Every challenge that comes up is just a problem that needs a solution.
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I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.
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Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.
