Nicholas Culpeper Quotes
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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When you talking boxing, you talking me.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.
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If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.
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The most fundamental seems fickle.
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The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
