Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
Quotes to Explore
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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There is nothing so striking to the eye on a return to England from the Continent as the stateliness of our trees. I do not know of any trees in Europe to compare with ours.
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In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.
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If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
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We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
