Heraclitus Quotes
History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.
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Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.
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Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.
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The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.
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‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’
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History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
