Democritus Quotes
And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
Bear Grylls
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams
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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
Vikram Seth
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
Wale
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
Usher
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
Kate Bush
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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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If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
Patricia Velasquez
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
Ed Asner
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
Vera Wang
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
Yani Tseng
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
Carine Roitfeld
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
Lacey Schwimmer
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
P. T. Barnum
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Paul here is unhappy because unhappiness is second nature to him but more particularly because he has not the faintest idea of how to bring about his heart's desire. And I am unhappy because nothing is happening. Four people in four corners, moping, like tramps in Beckett, and myself in the middle, wasting time, being wasted by time.
J. M. Coetzee
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
Larry Wall
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If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.
Bob Dylan
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I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
Chuck Close
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One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
Jean Rostand
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Spiritual matters should be private.
Sherman Alexie
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
Carl Linnaeus
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And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.
Democritus