Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.
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I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
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We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
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I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.
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Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
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My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.
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I have a variety of styles. I don't stick to one particular style.
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My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
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I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.
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I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.
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It's not that I don't feel bad about it. It's just that I don't feel worse today than what I felt yesterday.
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The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
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I think it is one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman.
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Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.
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Jon Anik better get a motherfucking 209 tattoo or I'm whoop is little ass.
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For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.
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We've got enormous potential, phenomenal potential on our doorstep, which requires politics that makes that work, and that's what we try to show here in Ireland: that while there's a lot of pain, the reward at the end of this is career opportunities, prosperity, and brighter days for everybody.
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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The poverty and unemployment which we came into existence to fight have been largely conquered
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Oftentimes in tech, people think, 'I'm the only one that has this.' I call them the Atlas People. They're like, 'The weight of the world is on the shoulders. I'm the only person who can solve this problem.' But you can't do that.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
