Machado de Assis Quotes
Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.
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I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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The lunar cycle within the solar season: that kind of syncopated rhythm is what life relates to.
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Your condition is NOT your conclusion.
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I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.
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To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet.
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I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.
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Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.
