W. C. Fields Quotes
I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.
Quotes to Explore
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.
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I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
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Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.
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It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section.
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You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.
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A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.
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The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions.
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I always wanted to play characters, and that was definitely one - a Russian spy.
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Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
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I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.
