"It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value."
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"Are there women in your world now that have given you those lessons in confidence? Oh absolutely. Meryl [Streep] does it all the time. I think she does it in a way that she doesn't even understand or think she's doing it."
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"I had to invest in the love and understand that with the love comes the pain. So when he tells me that, the monologue is already there. Does that make sense?"
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"I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does."
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"Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?"
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"I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME."
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"And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!"
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"That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!"
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"I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN."
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"Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"
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"Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?"
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"Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic."
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"My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir."
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"Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics."
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"Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position."
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"The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad."
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"I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work."
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"He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master."
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"Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time."
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"...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority of those to whom the revelation has been made. Nor does this take away from the dignity of this doctrine, for although the argument from authority based on human reason is the weakest, yet the argument from authority based on divine revelation is the strongest."
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