Herodotus Quotes
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
Malin Akerman
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
Federica Mogherini
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
Pat Gillick
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Nathaniel Branden
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
Barry Jenkins
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
Ilya Ilyin
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
Maggie Grace
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Victor Hugo
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
Vera Farmiga
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
A. R. Ammons
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
Ralph Fiennes
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I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
Owen Hart
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
Rachael Harris
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The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.
Tavi Gevinson
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
Damien Hirst
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When I stay focused and honest about who I am and the image that I hope to portray, then I won't find myself stranded in unfamiliar territory chasing money or popularity. If the work that you do is quality, then you'll be rewarded. It's also good to stretch musically within the realm of your ability, but not if it compromises your integrity.
Oleta Adams
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Every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.
Hannah Arendt
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The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.
Frances O'Grady
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
Fay Weldon
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A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.
William Butler Yeats
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In soft regions are born soft men.
Herodotus