Neil Diamond Quotes
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I am a very selfish person.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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I was sitting alone in a grim mood – furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me – from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign – please send the bills to me... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
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Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
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The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.
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If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
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There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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We Americans are idealists. We are willing to follow the truth solely because it is the truth. We put our main emphasis on the things which are spiritual. While we possess an unsurpassed skill in marshaling and using the material resources of the world, still the nation has not sought for wealth and power as an end but as a means to a higher life.
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Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.
