"Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart."
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"Honestly, I think it's dumb luck that I'm able to kind of get away doing different types of films in different genres. There's always a tendency to kind of stick with what works, or stick with one particular kind of brand or movie. But so far I've been getting away with it, so I'm going to continue to do that for as long as I can."
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"Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time."
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"Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses."
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"Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions."
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"It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible."
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"Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle."
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"No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good."
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"Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved."
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"If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)"
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"A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him."
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"There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out."
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"Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which it definitely feels like when you're struggling to write regularly or can't seem to earn a living as a freelance writer - maybe you need to take a long-term perspective."
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"Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand."
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"Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose."
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"In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood."
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"I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part."
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"As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."
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"If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence."
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"When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still."
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