Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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All of us grow.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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I learned from my parents to do my best to not react to negative emotions. I try to think about what has happened and find the lessons that can be learned from these difficult experiences. I try to deal with these negative emotions right away because, if they stay inside, they can hurt and do a lot of damage. I release them as soon as possible so I can be free.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.
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Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.
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Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.
