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Amartya Sen quote: "A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain..."

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

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I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles. Mary Steenburgen
He that has a little tiny wit, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, Must make content with his fortunes fit, Though the rain it raineth every day. William Shakespeare
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When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it. Isabelle Huppert
You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones. Bill Wyman
Kate Bosworth quote: "I'm a serial monogamist."
I'm a serial monogamist. Kate Bosworth
Climbing hills was never one of my great ambitions. Perhaps I was just lazy, but I admit--now that I've been climbing a hill every other day--that it's very difficult to think about the stresses in your life while you're trying to avoid falling backwards when a goat with large horns is chasing you because you came too close to the little patch of grass he was planning to eat for breakfast. Gene Wilder
Michael Shermer quote: "Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training."
Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training. Michael Shermer
Terry Prachett quote: "Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a..."
Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel! Terry Prachett
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "Di dalam iman tidak ada tempat untuk berputus asa."
Di dalam iman tidak ada tempat untuk berputus asa. Mahatma Gandhi
Andrew Mason quote: "I own over four ties."
I own over four ties. Andrew Mason
Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility. Javier Solana
The rims of his eyelids were burning. A blow received straightens a man up and makes the body move forward, to return that blow, or a punch-to jump, to get a hard-on, to dance: to be alive. But a blow received may also cause you to bend over, to shake, to fall down, to die. When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death. Detectives, poets, domestic servants... Jean Genet
I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters. Michael Connelly
What is vital and healthy does not necessarily survive... An art, a whole civilization, may at any time slip through men's fingers in a very few years and be gone beyond recovery. If we are alive when such a thing is happening we shall hardly notice it until too late; and it is most unlikely that we shall know its causes. C. S. Lewis
It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment. Kenneth Grahame