Heraclitus Quotes
We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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My parents have always been very open.
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you're basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
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It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.
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That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.
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A frame is the foundation from which everything evolves.
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It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's right between us, always.
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What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.
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The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
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We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.
