Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection tends to be more accessible during meditative experiences in the dream state. Once one has accessed memories of previous lives in the dream state, one gradually recalls them in the waking state.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived in Hong Kong and America.
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They even want unelected panels of bureaucrats to decide who gets what life-saving medical care and who is just too old or it’s too expensive to be worth saving.
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Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
