L. Frank Baum Quotes

If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

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• I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
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  • Forgotten
  • Plato

• The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Work
  • Challenge
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• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
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• I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

  

  Nate Silver
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  • Myself

• I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • City
  • Habits

• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Accept

• Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Spiritual

• You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

  

  Venus Williams
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  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

  

  Laetitia Casta
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  • Love
  • Mother

• I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

  

  Larry David
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• I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

  

  Natalie Maines
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  • Believe
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• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  

  Edmund Burke
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  • Wine

• I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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  • Golf

• After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

  

  Karl von Frisch
  • Philosophy
  • First
  • Exams

• I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.

  

  Kate Moss
  • School
  • Train
  • Uniform

• Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.

  

  Billy Childish
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  • Mind
  • Art

• Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot and try to put their voices into their character.

  Dito Montiel
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  • Character

• If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Friends
  • Remember

• There were days when I was on the last $10 in my account, and I was freaking out about paying rent or buying groceries. Then you book a commercial, and you're good for another three months.

  

  Colin Egglesfield
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• Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.

  

  Anne M. Mulcahy
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• If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

  

  L. Frank Baum
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