John Muir Quotes
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.
Quotes to Explore
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I despise shopping and department stores.
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I listen to all types of music, but big rock records are the ones that, in the walk-up, make me wonder, 'What's this next set going to sound like?'
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Some gems for the greatest of them all.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.
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The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.
