Lafcadio Hearn Quotes
The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.
Lafcadio Hearn
Quotes to Explore
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
Fergus Henderson
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
Saint Ignatius
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
Adam DeVine
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
Patrice Leconte
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
Ira Sachs
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
Ted Dekker
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
Randeep Hooda
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
Barry Schwartz
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
Victoria Pendleton
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The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
Demosthenes
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There was no way to predict that 'This is Us' was going to be what it is, that it would really resonate with people.
Susan Kelechi Watson
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I don't feel superior because I think there's no God. Actually, I would love to be able to go, 'Well, the world hasn't been kind to me, but there's something good around the corner, because the Man has a plan.' I wish I believed that. There's wonderful comfort in that.
Liam Cunningham
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I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.
Claudia Christian
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I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful.
Albert Einstein
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The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.
Lafcadio Hearn
