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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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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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 just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.
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I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.
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A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.
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It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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I have two kids in diapers and a cat whose litter box I clean out. I deal with an awful lot of crap.
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Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.
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I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.
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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.
