Humphry Davy Quotes
The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,--its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.
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I always sang in school choirs and went on tours to other countries. I have always loved it. It's a very communal thing, and you really connect with people.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
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Male Message 1 is subconsciously experienced by the boy like this: ‘Some girls in my class already look like movie stars. If they wanted me as much as I want them, then I’d know I was okay. They are genetic celebrities. I am a genetic groupie.’
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Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
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People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.
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Everybody kind of always bags on me because I use the word 'awesome' a lot.
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CNN is proud of its people and they were doing the right thing in providing coverage of the departure of the freed U.S. flight crew.
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I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.
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You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.
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I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way.
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The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,--its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.
