Diogenes Quotes
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
Ingmar Bergman
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
Katee Sackhoff
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
Lance Armstrong
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
Felicity Kendal
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
Tamron Hall
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Edmond de Goncourt
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
Bear Grylls
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I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
Kate Smith
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
Kapil Dev
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Oscar Wilde
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
Adam Driver
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
Edgardo Osorio
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
A. N. Wilson
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
Nas
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After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.
W. Richard Stevens
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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.
George Bernard Shaw
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
Rachel Bloom
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
Harriet Tubman
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I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.
Zainab Salbi
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Childhood's over the moment you know you're going to die.
Michael Wincott
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If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.
Diogenes