Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
Petrarch
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
Fede Alvarez
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
Zach LaVine
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
Ursus Wehrli
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman
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I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
Clarice Lispector
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When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.
Jakob Dylan
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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
Adam Clarke
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We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
Wallace Stegner
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
Petrarch
