Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.
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He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.
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We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
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Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
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Hip-hop as a culture itself goes through stages. It grows - it's breathing, living. I've noticed that we usually start off conscious, then we wind up very highly sexual, and then we thug it out. Then things get a little funny again, with comedy and that kind of thing.
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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
