Democritus Quotes
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
Quotes to Explore
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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We were descended from royalty.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.
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I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.
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My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had.
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Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb; the grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone. We are living through a remarkable period: the self-extinction of the race who, for good or ill, shaped the modern world.
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To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
