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• Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Inspirational, Men, Evil

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• No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Childhood, Pleasure

  Marcel Proust (1948). “Marcel Proust: A Selection from His Miscellaneous Writings”

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• Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

  Cameron Crowe

  Writing, Thinking, Degrees

  "Cameron Crowe for “Elizabethtown”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. September 27, 2005.

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• Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

  Cullen Hightower

  Funny, Mistake, Laughing

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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  Jackie Mason

  Retirement, Health, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: 60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.

  Valentino Garavani

  Fashion, Clothes, Littles

  Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. August 10, 2010.

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• For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Heart, Years, Broken

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• But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

  Ridley Scott

  Adventure, Smell, Creating

  "Exclusive Print Interview with Sir Ridley Scott for Gladiator". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to your favourite tune. Dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what's happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting – or just lie back and stare at the sky.

  Joan Littlewood

  Baby, Lying, Sky

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• Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and effectively his only friend, to encourage him to rejectthe consensus of opinionand find reassurance only in her arms is binding her mate to her with hoops of steel that will strangle them both.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Pride, Reality

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• If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

  Kurt Lewin

  Change, Business, Understanding

  Attributed in "Problems of Theoretical Psychology - ISTP 1995" by Charles W. Tolman, (p. 31), 1996.

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• I'm interested in philosophy, I studied it, and I also admit I try to read things that are way above me. I have a limit: I take what I need from it, and I do find that some of my favourite philosophical writings tend to be poppier. I admire smart people who are able to describe things simply or in a human, readable way.

  Daniel Lopatin

  Philosophy, Smart, Philosophical

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.

  Bill Bryson

  Science, Work Out, Royal

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• In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Facts, Literature

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• The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

  Robin Gibb

  Soul, Black, Style

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  Cutting, Dresses, Weight

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• I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.

  John Hurt

  Memories, Film, I Can

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Divorce, Dark, Thinking

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• The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Scotch, Champion

  "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett, www.abc.net.au. August 16, 2009.

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• Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Iran, Iraq

  "Hitch-22: A Memoir". Book by Christopher Hitchens, 2010.

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• My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.

  Ricky Gervais

  Years, Bridges, Mma

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 4, 2013.

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• My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

  P. J. Plauger

  Experts, Definitions, Fields

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• Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

  Cale Yarborough

  Dirty, Intelligent, Pigs

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• The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, Brave, Coward

  "Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics".

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• Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

  Robert Fripp

  Simple, Knowing, Understanding

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