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The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive… — Stanley Kubrick
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as… — Carl Jung
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going… — Thucydides
When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't… — Miroslav Vitous
I recalled how much time i had spent fighting for something i didn't even want. maybe because i had been too lazy to think of… — Paulo Coelho
For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent… — Blaise Cendrars
The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation. — Al Ries
To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the… — Ezra Taft Benson
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't… — Carol Ann Duffy
As members of the Lord's Church, we must take missionary work more seriously. The Lord's commission to 'preach the gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15)… — Ezra Taft Benson
When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of… — Pope Benedict XVI
I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor,… — Strom Thurmond
Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from… — Bernard Cornwell
The fact is, almost every move of God is, in some ways, profoundly different from the previous ways that He has moved. — Rick Joyner
Brothers and sisters, as good as our previous experience may be, if we stop asking questions, stop thinking, stop pondering, we can thwart the revelations… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The angels laugh at old Karl. They laugh at him because he tries to grasp the truth about God in a book of Dogmatics. They… — Karl Barth
It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the… — Thomas Sowell
He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting… — Geoff Dyer

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