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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.


Francis Bacon
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He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.


Erica Jong
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.


Havelock Ellis
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Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer very much and the director is the one who it is all about.
Julie Harris
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If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
Jonathan Sacks
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.


John Ruskin
The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.
Pete Cashmore
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I understand, certain scenes have to have a lot of takes. As an actor, I think it's quite nice to have a handful of takes, because you don't want to do it once or twice; I think once or twice sometimes is quite terrifying because you don't really feel like you've given them what you want.
Luke Evans
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I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.
Hideki Tojo
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I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.


Pedro Almodovar
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My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.


Pierre Loti
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Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
Carl Honore
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Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
Peter Diamandis
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Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.


Tom Waits
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.
Peggy Noonan
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac
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Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.


Johann Georg Hamann
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.


Francis Collins