"Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now."
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"I mean that's my entire life right there. I re-evaluted everybody in my life. I narrowed it down to the people that really cared about me. And did away with everybody else. Just kind of distanced myself. Same thing with the producers."
"Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind."
"Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection."
""Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords."
"Is she kind as she is fair?"
"Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone."
"A little more than kin, and less than kind."
"The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind."
"I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor."
"Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves."
"I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well."
"There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate."
"I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest."
"I don't think my film style has changed. I'm doing the same kind of jokes I did when I was younger."
"Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense."
"I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it."
"I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition."
"There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with."
"The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got into it as well 'cause I started with the folk styles."