Neil Diamond Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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My philosophy is to be me.
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There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
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I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
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Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
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The main thing is how we play and how we work in training.
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There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.
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Life is the biggest workshop: you have to observe life. You have to be one with the milieu more than anything else.
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Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
