Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.
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'We were making the future,' he said, 'and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!'
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He that thinks himself capable of astonishing may write blank verse: but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme.
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I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.
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They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
