Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I get homesick.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I still have a young attitude.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons.
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I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Antipsychotic drugs were a major factor in reducing the number of people living in mental hospitals in the United States, from over 500,000 in 1955 to fewer than 100,000 in 1996.
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I think a book is often an account, or a series of accounts, that create a world that is sort of half of the world. There are references to a world, and then the reader supplies the other fifty percent.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
