"That's one of the things of being an actor. You have to push any knowledge of any future, at all, out of your mind. You never know what's going to happen where."
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"Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind."
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"Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor."
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"I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful."
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"Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own."
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"Do you realize how hard it is to keep your mind clear when somebody’s telling you to keep your mind clear?"
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"What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable."
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"We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart."
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"Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze."
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"I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life."
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"A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies."
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"The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree."
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"How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness."
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"A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth."
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"Speech is the index of the mind."
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"It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men."
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"Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn."
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"Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin."
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"The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning."
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"As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves"
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