Herodotus Quotes

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

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• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  

  Gabrielle Reece
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• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
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• They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

  

  Jack LaLanne
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• The mind is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Daniel Dennett
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• You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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• I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Myself
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• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
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• Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Intelligence
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• Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
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• One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Marriage
  • Public
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• There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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• I have my fashion empire to build.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Fashion
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• We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Government
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• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
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• You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

  

  Walter Lord
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• The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Time
  • Power
  • Truth

• The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • War

• A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

  

  Charles Dickens
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• Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" He replied, "I never leave my place of meditation." He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.

  

  Stephen Covey
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• The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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  • Curiosity

• I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Remember
  • Successful
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• Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

  

  Herodotus
  • Goal
  • Victory
  • Designs