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Peter Abelard Quotes

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: 1079 - April 21, 1142

Topics

Truth Investigating Come Recognize

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

Job Ideas Voice Emotions Actor Tell

If I'm not the best aunt in America, then I don't know what's going on.

Best America Know Aunt Going Then

No one wants to friend or follow covert info about Pakistan's nuclear policy.

Friend Follow Policy Pakistan Wants

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

Retire Performer

I think it's important to relax in general. I don't try to save up my relaxing for one month period of the year; it's kind of a daily practice that I've tried to remain aware of.

Daily Practice Relax Think Year Try

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

Good Man Ever Ballplayer Roger

I have a lot of friends with bad taste in music - some might say that I have bad taste in music.

Jonathan Levine

Music Friends Bad Say Taste Some

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

Music Influence Aesthetic Never Big

I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.

Comedy Year Television Democrat Did

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

Words Writing Look Find Choice

I'm an absolute fan of Angela Bassett. I think she's a great, great actress. In the biopics, she is so moving. She's very rare. It's something that doesn't happen that much, to see an actress inventing a new way of showing 'woman' onscreen, and a new way of being beautiful.

Arnaud Desplechin

Beautiful Great Woman Moving Think

Everybody needs one essential friend.

William Glasser

Friend Everybody Needs Essential

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