Machado de Assis Quotes
Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.
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I've never been a partier.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.
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I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.
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Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.
