Phaedrus (Gaius Julius Phaedrus) Quotes
The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
Quotes to Explore
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
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Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
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My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.
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I don't mean to be funny.
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.
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According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
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If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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Respect and fear are two different things.
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I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.
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When you strike a blow, do not let your mind dally on it, not concerning yourself with whether or not it is a telling blow; you should strike again and again, over and over, even four or five times. The thing is not to let your opponent even raise his head.
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The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
