Dante Alighieri Quotes
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
Haile Gebrselassie
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
Oscar Robertson
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
Victoria Azarenka
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
Daniel Burnham
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
Ogden Nash
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The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
Dana Spiotta
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
Xander Berkeley
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As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.
Patricia Heaton
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The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.
Manny Farber
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
Abigail Disney
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Jésus a pleuré, Voltaire a souri; c’est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu’est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle.
Victor Hugo
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Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.
Marcus Aurelius
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She doesn't get to say much in the official biography - I believe they are out of wine, etc., practical things - watching with one eye as he goes about the world calling himself The Son Of Man.
Anne Carson
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Laurence Sterne
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Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.
Benjamin Graham
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In 1957, as the leader of the majority in the United States Senate, speaking in support of legislation to guarantee the right of all men to vote, I said, 'This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.'
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Why would I be excited that a Democrat won? Seriously, over the past eight years the Democrats didn't do SHIT! Basically, the last eight years, I feel, the Republicans stood around farting; and the Democrats went 'Ooh, let me smell it.'
Lewis Black
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I looked for it heavy hydrogen, deuterium because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known the nuclear bomb ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs.
Harold Urey
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There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.
Hillary Clinton
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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There’s already an evolution taking place inside of Cuba, a generational change. Many suggested that I come here and ask the people of Cuba to tear something down - but I’m appealing to the young people of Cuba who will lift something up, build something new.
Barack Obama
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My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious persecution and came to America seeking a better life for their family.
Jan Schakowsky
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Contra miglior voler voler mal pugna; ...
Dante Alighieri