Diogenes Quotes
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
Quotes to Explore
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
Ford Frick -
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.
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Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.
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I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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I don't even sing in the shower.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.
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Beauty is a rebellion against time.
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Truth is, I don't like movies that are only good once; I tend to dismiss them. I like movies that get better the more you watch them.
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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
