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Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Prior to 'Tokyo Drift,' the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy… — Sung Kang Copy Share Image
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
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Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I went to a school where everyone was smarter than me. And I'm not blowin' smoke, I, my, I was surrounded by… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
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Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
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Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It's about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses… — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
What you are is a human being, sensitive and alive, with genius inside of you. Not only that, but you are one… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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I love to get to the underbelly of why people are up in arms about anything. Really, what I see is a… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
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