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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Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.
Art Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love...
George Eliot
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When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels...it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a little rest, really, and I know that it's only five or ten minutes until the show ends and I can get a drink.
John Spencer
No Doubt
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If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be loved and cherished. If you come from an incomprehensible world filled with secrecy and fear, it’s almost impossible to find the words to express what you have endured. If you grew up unwanted and ignored, it is a major challenge to develop a visceral sense of agency and self-worth.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.
R. A. Torrey
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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
