Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.
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I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
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I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
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Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.
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Change your thinking, change your life.
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Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
