"Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact."

-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

#Running Quotes #Self Quotes #Matter Quotes

“We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.”
“As has been reported, and is unmistakably evident to all but the most naÃ¯ve, federal employees have been ordered to exploit this crisis, to make the government shutdown as uncomfortable as they can. The White House is actively soliciting complaints from the general public on 'how the government shutdown has affected you.' These testimonies are tools sought for the propaganda kit; the better to agitate with.”
“I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot.”

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“When you read a script, you don't want to be the same guy all the time, you want to change, you're a different person. That's why acting is a wonderful career. You're not the same guy all the time.”

Source : Interview with AVC, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.
“When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.”
“I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes demands.”
“For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.”
“I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.”

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