I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ~Jack Steinberger
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb. ~Irwin Redlener
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
#quotes #john-hodgman #thinking #media

Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
#quotes #ray-kurzweil #intelligence #simplicity #complexity

If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
#quotes #muriel-barbery #world

All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music. ~Brett Eldredge
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
#quotes #paul-mceuen #childhood

It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
#quotes #r-a-salvatore #fantasy

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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