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You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

-- Irvine Welsh

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The muffled syllables that Nature speaksFill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

-- George Santayana

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Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

-- Elisabeth Elliot

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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

-- Edward Dahlberg

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After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

-- Bob Woodward

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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

-- Anish Kapoor

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Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

-- Diogenes Laërtius

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It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

-- Robin Quivers

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

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