Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
Ted Turner -
Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
Adam Lambert -
There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
Adam Lambert -
You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
Mal Peet -
Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!
Zayn Malik One Direction
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
Wale -
Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
Hansika Motwani -
Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
Wayne Dyer -
Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.
Taylor Swift -
I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
Barry Hannah -
I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
Ja Rule
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
Kabir Bedi -
Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.
Victor Pinchuk -
The world is changing so quickly, and actors now have this huge platform of social media to interact with their audiences, but I choose not to have a social media footprint. I'm old-school like that.
Natalie Dormer -
Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
Fernando Pessoa -
Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
Fernando Pessoa -
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.
Edward Sapir
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I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.
Ennio Morricone -
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
Salman Rushdie -
I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I've got a lot of chickens, I've got a horse, I've got a kitty-cat, I've got a lot of goats, I've got animals all over the place.
Buffy Sainte-Marie -
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
Desmond Tutu -
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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