Plutarch Quotes
Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.Plutarch
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
Victor Cruz -
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
Ice T -
As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
Gary Hamel -
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
Jack Paar -
There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
Oleg Kulik -
The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
Vidya Balan
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
Madchen Amick -
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
Ferid Murad -
I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
Candice Bergen -
Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.
Park Geun-hye -
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
A. N. Wilson -
From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.
Omari Hardwick -
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
Galileo Galilei -
I think that on the whole man would be living a more natural life if he were a vegetarian.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
Whenever the government fails to prevent a plane crash, the event is cited as justification for having the government prevent plane crashes.
Harry Browne -
The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived.
Leo Rosten -
Once more I hear the everlasting seaBreathing beneath the mountain's fragrant breast
Alfred Noyes
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
Nadine Gordimer -
If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.
Ina May Gaskin -
I think Michael Moore is a hero.
Larry David -
When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.
Thomas Hardy -
And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.
Aleksander Kwasniewski -
Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
Plutarch