Marsilio Ficino Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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I love what I do.
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Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
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When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.
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Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.
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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
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Since the classical language has an easy grammar and limited vocabulary, a few months should suffice for the mastering of it.
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You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
