Herodotus Quotes
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
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My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
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I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.
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Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
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For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.
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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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I really dont go out at all; I just stay at home and watch movies and skateboard around the house.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
