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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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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I wouldn't mind being in a relationship, but there's no reason to marry.
Marie Helvin
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A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs, to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking match.
Charles Dickens
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When I first started, they were trying to get me into sitcoms - I think because I had that kind of Wonder Bread look and my hair always went into place. I kept saying, 'I'm not good at sitcoms. I don't know how to do that.'
Brad Pitt
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There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
Jaron Lanier
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If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.
Martin Luther
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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