Diogenes Quotes
I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
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I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies.
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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
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To me, the Peabody was as big if not bigger than any award, but I do understand an Emmy Award-winning show has a different buzz when it comes to start talking about renewals and things like that. There's a professional something to it that matters.
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I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to prevent non-Catholics from having abortions if they feel that abortions are morally acceptable. They can certainly only argue for what they believe to be right in the court of public opinion and try to persuade people.
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How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.
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I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
