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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The important thing is to get yourself born. You’re entitled to that. But you’re not entitled to life. Because if you were entitled to life, then the life would have to be quantified. How many years? Seventy? Sixty? Shakespeare was dead at fifty-two. Keats was dead at twenty-six. Thomas Chatterton at seventeen.
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The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie.
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The only people I really hate are parking attendants.
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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Recognition has brought me more work, because your name suddenly comes to mind when some directors are trying to cast a character. And my stage work has specifically enabled people to have faith that I can handle a role, even when it's not specifically written for an African-American. So, I'd have to say that recognition brings work. A successful movie brings more work, and that been the biggest blessing.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
