Herodotus Quotes
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I'm not super into sports.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.
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I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.
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I had a meal last night. I ordered everything in French, surprised everybody. It was a Chinese restaurant. I said to this Chinese waiter, 'Look, this chicken I got here is cold.' He said, 'It should be, it's been dead two weeks.'
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Do not, under any circumstances belittle a works of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.
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When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that what I had said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's was talked over in which I strictly declared that I had never deviated from the truth in the matter, and as I supposed was admitted by himself.
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I guess I got lucky with my sound.
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
