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I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

Actor Artists Because Believe
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Dreams Myths Private Public
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Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Alive Ascribe Being Bring
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Bigger Given Her Hero
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I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Alive Being Believe Experience
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Another Best Contemporary Contemporary Life
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Bliss Doors Follow Only
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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Another Every Facts Gets
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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Anyone Anyone Else Been Could
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Being Lifetime Privilege Who
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Computers Gods Like Lots
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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Blame Doing Fruit Life
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Challenging Come Deeper Find
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Beat Goal Heartbeat Life
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Himself I Think Job Live
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Cannot Choose Cure Joy
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Abyss Down Going Lies
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We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

About Achieve Alive Associated
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We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Disappointment Discipline Must Pain
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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Advance Clearness Dawn Difficulties
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Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Affirmation Beginning Delusion Discipline
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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Door Good Good IdeaI Dea
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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Chances Design Else Fall
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Accomplishment Between Bridge Discipline
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Any Author Fiction Form
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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Absolutely Agree Believe Clearly
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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Disciplined Effort Every Multiple
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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Education Formal Formal Education Fortune
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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Accomplish Always Far Get
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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Awareness Create Food Light
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The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

Aware Could Give Hurt
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The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Become Get Life Major
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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Great Great Joy Greatness Himself
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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Cannot Change Charge Circumstances
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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Born Change Character Fingerprints
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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
Change How Like Things
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.

Hipsterism Codes Social Originality
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
Violent Writing Art
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Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.

Liberating Fulfilling Dream
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Chances Each Experience He
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

Chorus Discord Does Even
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I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.

Personally Faction Movie Ciniphiles
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It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.

Always Constantly Fountain Hard
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Great His Language Limits
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Even More MoreAndMore Poetry
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Always Bourgeois Content Manifest
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A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

Aims Attitude Defined Future
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Abrupt Divides Each Geography
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

Gospel Sinful Flawed Dared
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
God Worshipping Idealized Yourself
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