Herodotus Quotes
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
J. B. Pritzker -
Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
Gary Wolf -
It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
Zhang Yimou -
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
Irvine Welsh -
When I awoke in the morning, my mother and Julia Hislop were whispering in a corner. They didn't have to tell me why. I already knew that my father was dead. And when the feeling of peace wore off, the surprise at having known intensified my sense of loss and sorrow. Although I was only nine, I could imagine what death meant. I knew he was gone forever.
Lana Turner
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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
R. C. Sproul -
But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
Nicki Minaj -
Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
Oscar Wilde -
We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.
Edward T. Hall -
Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young.
Matthew Shafer
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If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of people who are in this industry don't have a lot of friends - but have a lot of acquaintances - because you never know what everyone's ulterior motives are.
Donald Faison -
It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility.
Val Kilmer -
The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
William Penn -
Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
Victor Hugo -
One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.
Barbara Marx Hubbard -
I'd always find the positive in someone.
Winona Ryder