Diogenes Quotes
When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home."
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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The world is too violent right now.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.
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I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
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When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home."
