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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I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.
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A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
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She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.
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It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.
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I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
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Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
