Jean Paul Quotes

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

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• As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Important
  • History
  • Think

• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Most
  • Arrested

• You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Done
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Power
  • Guitar

• Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

  

  O. Henry
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Dollar

• My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Him

• What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Experience

• I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Game
  • Play
  • Getting Better

• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Help
  • Religion
  • Practical

• The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying to be pretty!' Inherent in that is a lot of misogyny, I think, because the implication is, 'You must work hard to achieve a feminine ideal for which society has nothing but contempt.'

  

  Rae Carson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trying

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Education
  • Alone

• Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Want
  • Morning
  • Him

• I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Responsibility

• Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Work
  • Done
  • You

• Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Diamond
  • Spontaneity

• With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • People
  • Work
  • Career

• The wind which passes through the skins of animals will make men leap up:-That is the bagpipes, which cause men to dance.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Men
  • Dance

• I never thought it was fair that women couldn't travel freely because it was dangerous. I'd stay by myself on the North Carolina coast for a couple of weeks, with my dog and my gun, and my mom would be terrified. I told her, if I stay home, a lamp could fall on my head. You can't spend your whole life inside because you're scared.

  

  Margo Price
  • Life
  • Women
  • Home

• Republicans - well, we're all part of the same family. We need to have some good disagreements with each other; we need to debate, but in the end, it's all about uniting, not dividing.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Good
  • Family

• When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

  

  Etta James
  • Church
  • Sing
  • Performing

• Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

  

  Jean Paul