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I saw 'Taxi Driver ' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

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My cooking philosophy what I try to do is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things like molecular cuisine with a lot of additives and chemicals which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never in any case regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness and only what is useless is pleasurable.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

One of the great questions of philosophy is do we innately have morality or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

The theoretical understanding of the world which is the aim of philosophy is not a matter of great practical importance to animals or to savages or even to most civilised men.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet namely a dull ending.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils but the present are commonly too hard for it.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace friendship cooperation and understanding among peoples.

My philosophy is don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head so it keeps the spirit moving.

I'm working harder than ever now and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before and that is to run a great restaurant with great food great wine and great service. That's my philosophy.

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine and do it on a daily basis.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.