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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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
Fidel Castro
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
Irina Shayk
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
J. K. Simmons
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
Naveen Jain
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
Aaron Eckhart
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To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
Dave Winfield
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At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.
George Papandreou
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
J. Cole
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
Naomi Klein
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After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.
Wallace Shawn
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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