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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
#quotes #anne-meara #computers #internet #life
quotistBut the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
#quotes #peter-shaffer #writing #novels
I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
#quotes #marjane-satrapi #picasso #culture #generations #influence
Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone. ~Prabal Gurung
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But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
#quotes #errol-morris #documentaries
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer
#quotes #john-bulwer #love
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
#proverbs #zen-proverbs #buddhism
proverbiosI just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
#quotes #tom-hanks #50s #generation
And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
#quotes #kerry-greenwood #helping
The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
#quotes #charles-marion-russell #west
Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
#quotes #townsend-harris #nation
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
#quotes #elisabeth-elliot #marriage
A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #stupidity
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
#quotes #paulo-coelho #the-alchemist #universe #inspiration #wish
A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
#quotes #maria-monk #christianity #power
In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
#quotes #steven-pinker #believe #soul #culture
Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
#quotes #john-henry-patterson #men #mind
Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
#quotes #sigmund-freud #gratification #maturity
"Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. ~Cinda Williams Chima
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #prayer