Being interested is more important than being interesting.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

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It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. — Mignon McLaughlin

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I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. -Clint Eastwood

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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

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A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

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Scientists want full proof under laboratory conditions. And the answer is very simple: When Im put under pressure, I cant perform. Even the phenomenon Im most known for. When Im on stage, Im not under pressure and it happens. In other important places, it happens. But in a laboratory where I really want it to happen, its very hard for me.

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J. R. R. Tolkien

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Look me in the eye. It’s ok if you’re scared. So am I. But we are scared for different reasons. I am scared of what I won’t become. And you are scared of what I could become. Look at me. I won’t let myself end where I started. I won’t let myself finish where I began. I know what is within me, even if you can’t see it yet. Look me in the eyes. I have something more important than courage. I have patience. I will become what I know I am.

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The most important thing is to try and enjoy life because you don't know if there is one. - Catherine Deneuve

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