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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#attractive #begin #being #doing #got

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#cinema #copying #done #establishing #first

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#becomes #eats #fly #intellect #mind

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#defining #estate #intellectual #intellectual property #kind

I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#closer #developing #efforts #i #i can

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#building #discovery #effective #great #had

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. ↗

— Ernest Newman

#higher #intellect #smaller #voice

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#just #love #photographing #putting #story

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#actor #aids #allow #craft #cues

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lie #may #sometimes #tell #tells