John James Audubon Quotes
Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren't packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human-however imperfectly-and fully embrace the pursuit that you've embarked on. (Hays translation)
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The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong.
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Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.
