David Livingstone Quotes
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
David Livingstone
Quotes to Explore
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
Barry Hannah
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
F. H. Bradley
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
Adam Peaty
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
J. G. Ballard
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
Kaley Cuoco
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
Ira Sachs
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
Nancy Reagan
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Normally I sleep in until 7, and most days, I go right into the office. On Tuesdays, though, I stay home and do work. I need a day when I'm not in meeting after meeting. You need time to try to get into your head again and see what's next.
Maria Cornejo
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
Obie Trice
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In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among the first group of artists to establish a movement that became known as Cynical Realism.
Arne Glimcher
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The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
Luis von Ahn
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It has to be really interesting for me to perform the same role for 365 days non-stop. It becomes taxing for an actor to perform the same character for 12 hours every day, and then, after a point, there's no growth.
Karishma Tanna
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I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
David Livingstone
