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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Something Jumping Fence Horse
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next

Sound Worthiness Earth Human
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died

Aim Effort History Life
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The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

Young man Forgotten Problems Heart
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Music Easiest Express Talent
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Affections Benevolent Constitute Exercise
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Absorb After Changes Detail
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adventure Approach Certain Certainty
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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Generosity Humanity Man Virtue
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Altogether Ambition Desire Directing
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Any Cheerfulness Christian Course
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Attended Consumer Consumption End
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I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

Being Both Doing Glad
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I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

Color Full Light Like
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Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.

Better Consumer Controlling Day
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Safe Magic Trash Power
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Ask Become Begin Experience
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Be Happy Being Expected Happy
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Also Am Certainly Circumstance
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Contains Control Describing Every
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Back Bread Cast Floating
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

Also Beings Beneath Better
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

Albums Dough Heavy Huge
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The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it.

Anything Country Feeling Go
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

About Alumni Bothered Institution
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Always Conflicting Directly Entertain
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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Around Audience Commercial Ideal
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
Anger Control Humble Modest
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There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

About Forum Frequent Group
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As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

Bathroom Crying Future Go
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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Difficult Done Earliest Figure
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I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.

Enough First Fortunate Had
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Human Human Voice Organ Soul
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Society Human Change Bring
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Survival Passion Battle Child
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Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

Citizens Activism Public Laws
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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

State Violence Erased Concrete
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Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

About Back ByTheTime Day
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I'm just human, I have faults like anyone

Human Fault Anyone
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Apathy Beings Cure Evils
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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Dark Experience Half Hour
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To err is human, but it feels divine.

To Err Is Human
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Consume Happiness More Producing
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

Man Like Can Be
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Abide Achieved Beauty Glory
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Human HumanRace Knock Never
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Never Worry About Diets
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

America Asylum Empty Sane
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Literature
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
Critics Cry Finest Full
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