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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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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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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A lot of people think teenagers haven't gone through anything in their lives - they're not even 20 years old yet. But a twenty-something can go through the same type of experience or heartbreak that a 50-year-old can go through, so why does age matter?
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I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.
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Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.
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Gewönlich wird eine Entdeckung nicht auf den einfachsten, sondern auf einem komplizierten Wege gemacht; die einfachen Fälle zeigen sich erst später.
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A lady asked Franklin: 'Well, Doctor, what have we got-a Republic or a Monarchy?'. Franklin replied: 'A Republic, if you can keep it.'
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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.
