Pythagoras Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.
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I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
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.. I reprobate the mechanically systematic approach of drawing.. ..so generally diffused. I think it can produce nothing but manner and sameness.
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Well I don’t know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I’ve never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that’s I love you.
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We should not act like we know that the universe began with the Big Bang... we'll see that there are strong suggestions that the Big Bang was perhaps not really the beginning of existence, but really just the beginning of our local universe, often called a pocket universe.
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Nada no es solamente nada. Es también nuestra cárcel.
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I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.
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The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
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I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.
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The 'Station to Station' film is a fast-moving journey through the modern creative landscape. It's a kaleidoscope of voices and impressions rather than a standard linear film.
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I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.
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With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.
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I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.
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Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
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South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.
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Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.
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I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
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Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.
