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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Tryon Edwards
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The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
Stephen Gardiner
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I tend to leave people alone that I admire.


Jason Statham
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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.


Edward Bond
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
Zachary Levi
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You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.
Iain Banks
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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.


William Lyon Phelps
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It's surreal working with people you admire. I don't think it ever goes away, no matter how human people are; there's always that moment of 'Oh wow, that's still George Clooney!' But I find that the most talented people tend to be the nicest.
Max Minghella
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Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.
Christopher Alexander
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I really admire people who concern themselves more with how they perceive the world rather than how the world perceives them. I think, as an artist, it's very important to do that. You can limit yourself a lot if you spend too much time caring about what people think of you.
Ben Schnetzer
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.


Pliny the Elder
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
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Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.
Patton Oswalt
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Camille Paglia
No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.
Thomas Vernor Smith
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In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.


Robert Reich
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Bridges and roads take years to build, but too often, states and communities haven't known if funding will be there for them more than a few months at a time.
Anthony Foxx
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American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.


Simon Pegg
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.


Gabrielle Union
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It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.
Emily Procter
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