John Muir Quotes
Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.
Quotes to Explore
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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I want to serve the people.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.
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The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.
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If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.
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Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.
