Chilon of Sparta Quotes
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.Chilon of Sparta
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
Iman -
It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
Mackenzie Rosman -
A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
Mahershala Ali -
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
G. H. Hardy -
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
Saint Augustine
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Zinedine Zidane -
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
Canelo Alvarez -
All my life I have fought corruption.
A. K. Antony -
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
Ed O'Neill -
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
Gail Carson Levine -
Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
Daniel Craig
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
Taylor Swift -
It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
Carine Roitfeld -
Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.
Karin Slaughter -
There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
Dambisa Moyo
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Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.
John Ruskin -
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
Bob Iger -
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and color. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and color, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary color.
Piet Mondrian -
Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.
Zendaya -
In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
Barbara Sukowa -
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Chilon of Sparta