Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’m not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you’re there to do, which is make a movie.
Ron Howard
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Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Spurgeon
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The microprocessor is a miracle.
Bill Gates
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu
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I’ve got an outspoken personality, which gets people thinking, and my style of fighting is aggressive. Everything’s on the line all the time. In my fights, there’s drama.
Tyson Fury
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein
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When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.
Michelle Obama
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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Thomas Merton
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Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.
Denzel Washington
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Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.
Phyllis Diller
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