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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
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When you do a cover it's a way to get attention clicking on something. At the Quiet Music Festival, The Jicks did this Nirvana song, very unrehearsed and not important, but then all the websites were like, "They covered Nirvana!" People like covers of famous people.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
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My accent depends on whom I'm around.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Seriously!, this is a DVD! I need dinosaurs, thunder, race wars, something! Dammit, I gotta sell this motherfucker.... 36.63.
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I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
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The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
