Dante Alighieri Quotes
Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
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I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.
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I was interning at a record label - OK, cool. I'm gonna do what my mom did, you know, work her way up in the music industry, the business side of things. I was comfortable with that. That was what I wanted to do. And then just suddenly I am thrown from that. It was super insane.
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I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident..
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You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.
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Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.
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A lot of us simply disengaged from politics altogether, but then we woke up and went wow, wait a minute. Why does that insane conversation get to dominate? Who made those people the creators of the conversation? And how can we start a new one?
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.
