Quotes 7021 till 7040 of 25144.
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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
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I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
Faceboek (2011) -
I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
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I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
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I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.
Interview voor Playboy -
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.
As quoted in Do you really want to be in our tribe? in The Telegraph (1 March 2005) -
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.
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I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
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I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
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I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.
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I couldn't get to sleep at night without saying the Lord's Prayer because, when I was young, I felt I was touched by the hand of Jesus, and hated myself for challenging it.
As quoted in Bruce Parry: My job doesnt allow me a private life by Cassandra Jardine in The Telegraph (19 September 1007)
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