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"I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way."
Brian De Palma
"I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way."
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"Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world."
William Penn
"Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world."
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"The hankering of the mind is irresistible."
Adam Weishaupt
"The hankering of the mind is irresistible."
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"The mind is wired by society, the heart is wired by your deepest desires for a blissful life."
Steven Redhead
"The mind is wired by society, the heart is wired by your deepest desires for a blissful life."
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"The function of a heart is to keep the body alive, I genuinely believe it is mind which takes care of everything else."
Amit Kalantri
"The function of a heart is to keep the body alive, I genuinely believe it is mind which takes care of everything else."
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"It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both."
Karl Schlegel
"It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both."
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"As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical."
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"The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts."
Henry Miller
"The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts."
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"Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own."
e. e. cummings
"Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own."
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"A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind."
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"Insanity is catching."
Terry Pratchett
"Insanity is catching."
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"It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence."
Matthew Arnold
"It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence."
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"As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it."
Darren Aronofsky
"As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it."
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"You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition."
W. Clement Stone
"You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition."
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"A contented mind is the best source for trouble."
Titus Maccius Plautus
"A contented mind is the best source for trouble."
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"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
Rene Descartes
"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
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"If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind."
Morgan Freeman
"If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind."
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"The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go."
Tom Jenkinson
"The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go."
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"We should not view our diaspora only in terms of 'Sankhya' but let us see them as 'Shakti'. In doing so, we can solve our problem of Brain Drain by converting it into Brain Gain."
Narendra Modi
"We should not view our diaspora only in terms of 'Sankhya' but let us see them as 'Shakti'. In doing so, we can solve our problem of Brain Drain by converting it into Brain Gain."
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"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."
F. H. Bradley
"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."
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"When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac."
Bram Cohen
"When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac."
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"I started writing more with my voice in mind."
Lucinda Williams
"I started writing more with my voice in mind."
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"I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor."
Hermann Oberth
"I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor."
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"Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good."
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"Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through."
Ted Olson
"Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through."
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"All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'"
Norman Ralph Augustine
"All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'"
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"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."
Kahlil Gibran
"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."
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"Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired."
Delphine de Girardin
"Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired."
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"I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale."
January Jones
"I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale."
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"I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality."
Lenny Kravitz
"I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality."
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"Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind."
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"I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can."
Larry Holmes
"I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can."
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"As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha."
Bodhidharma
"As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha."
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"I didn't know what was going through my mind."
Gabriela Sabatini
"I didn't know what was going through my mind."
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"It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus."
Hesiod
"It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus."
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"A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably."
Jean de la Bruyere
"A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably."
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"Your brain is wider than the sky."
Emily Dickinson
"Your brain is wider than the sky."
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"The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself."
Emile M. Cioran
"The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself."
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"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind."
Muhammad Iqbal
"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind."
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"Your thoughts, the way you think is the most powerful influence in your life."
John Patrick Hickey
"Your thoughts, the way you think is the most powerful influence in your life."
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"It can never be satisfied, the mind, never."
Wallace Stevens
"It can never be satisfied, the mind, never."
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"If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure."
Bodhidharma
"If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure."
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"His mind was a tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving with the dedication of Penelope for her Odysseus."
Thomm Quackenbush
"His mind was a tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving with the dedication of Penelope for her Odysseus."
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"The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient."
Mahalia Jackson
"The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient."
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"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay."
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"I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind."
Gene Tierney
"I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind."
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"The problem with introspection is that it has no end."
Philip K. Dick
"The problem with introspection is that it has no end."
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"You're as plain as the nose on your face, said Mr. Pennyworth. "And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are you. For the sake of all that is holy, empty your mind. Now. You are an empty alleyway. You are a vacant doorway. You are nothing. Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody."
Neil Gaiman
"You're as plain as the nose on your face, said Mr. Pennyworth. "And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are you. For the sake of all that is holy, empty your mind. Now. You are an empty alleyway. You are a vacant doorway. You are nothing. Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody."
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"In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid."
Al Purdy
"In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid."
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"Your mind is a garden; plant positivity."
Osho
"Your mind is a garden; plant positivity."
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