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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Prejudice Speak Mechanical instincts
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Greater impediment Progress Sciences
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Sure conviction Reason Good minds
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Book Mirror Look Apostle
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Convinced Love Ourselves Hate
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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

About Connected Done Feel
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I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Attendance Bed Belief Brain
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Everywhere Greater part Human wisdom
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Delight Understand Abstract System
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There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.

Babies Down Embracing Going
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Pleasures Imagination Drawings Models
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Noble Simplicity Works Nature
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I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

About Amazing Awesome Being
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My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

My beautiful Proof Ruins
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

Could Designer Fake Fashion
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I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play 'The Nanny Called Fran' every night for years. I've seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine.

Cable Channel Channels Could
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Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.

College Everyone False Gives
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It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

About Back Blowing Bringing
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That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

About Actor Anything Control
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I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Born Mouth Plastic Spoon
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

Because Bound Buddy Computer
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I should call people back more readily. I'm not the best friend sometimes in terms of that. I do follow that white balloon and get distracted a lot.

Back Balloon Best BestFriend
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Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

Backstage Clicks Curl Detached
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The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

About Bad Bald Getting
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Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

Because Being Drummer Ever
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My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.

About Although Anomaly Before
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I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.

Art Been Collect Five
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.

Also Answer Available Awesome
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Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Any Because Business Go
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I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.

Actor Actor Alive Because
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I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

Big Book Comic ComicBook
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I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

Basically Cereal Dress Eat
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I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.

Black Cigarettes Day Every
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Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

Back Been Bit Bogart
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A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers.

Dwarf Either Foolish Idiots
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A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.

Actor Directors Film FilmSchool
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I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

Around Because Being Carefully
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I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

Feel Good GoodPeople Greater
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I'm one of those who can't read the books after they've seen the movie.

After Books Movie Read
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We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

Around Doing Environmentally Good
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Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.

Animals Food Like Machinery
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We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Get Got Machines Many
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Even as a private lawyer, I had enough layers in my skin to take everything anyone threw at me without responding, even including insults, except when an allegation of a SPECIFIC nature with PROOF is made. As a public officer, I have even fortified that disposition the more

Private lawyer Layers Skin Allegation
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The challenge that’ll soon face government around the world is how to keep their citizens safe from COVID-19 by imposing inactivity & at the same time how to keep them safe from poverty, hunger and depression as a result of the inactivity. It’s a decision between the rock and a hard place

Challenge Face Government World
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The anxiety of some members of the public at this time is understandable and so are their criticisms. Matters of life/health should top the agenda of government. Therefore the criticisms must be taken in good faith and government will continue to weigh all of them to respond appropriately.

Anxiety Understandable Criticism Life
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Let’s use this period of partial lockdown to reignite old friendships and our common humanity. It’s not a period of gloom, but precaution. Call up old friends; search for your childhood playmates on social media and chat them up. Soon, we shall return to our crazy daily schedules

Partial lockdown Reignite Old friendship
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Absolutely! One of the qualities of a good Leader. Always wanting to hear the truth whether it's painful or not.

Absolutely Qualities Wanting Hear
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Books Burn Culture Destroy
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Books Burning Crimes Reading
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I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Before Good Hard HardWork
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