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“Have you ever had a broken heart?”
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“It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead , in the other case while alive .”
Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 4),
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“If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.”
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“It has to go to the level of emotional connection, where you feel without it you're lost.”
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“Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.”
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“Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.”
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“I think one of the reasons younger people don't like older films, films made say before the '60s, is that they've never seen them on a big screen, ever. If you don't see a film on a big screen, you haven't really seen it. You've seen a version of it, but you haven't seen it. That's my feeling, but I'm old-fashioned.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.”
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“Typing is no substitute for thinking.”
Source : "Structured BASIC programming". Book by John G. Kemeny, p. 118, 1987.
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“How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.”