Pliny the Elder Quotes

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

Pliny the Elder

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• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  

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• My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

  

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• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

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• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

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• In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

  

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• 'Coexist' was tough to make.

  

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• When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.

  

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• I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

  

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• I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.

  

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• All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

  

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• Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

  

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• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

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• I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

  

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• Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

  

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• Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

  

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• Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

  

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• The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.

  

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• When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.

  

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• It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

  

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• Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.

  

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• When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.

  

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• When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.

  

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• Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Challenge