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You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.
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Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
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I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.
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We've been together since the womb. We met in the womb.
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In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.
