Humphry Davy Quotes
Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.
Humphry Davy
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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
Kate Millett
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
Fernando Torres
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Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.
Gabourey Sidibe
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
Xun Kuang
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
Bear Grylls
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
Iggy Azalea
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A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.
Christian Bale
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'Reign' is probably the oldest one on the record. I wrote that when I was 19. 'The Dead They Don't Come Back,' which is the last song on the album, I wrote when I was 20, and 'Harlem River' I just wrote last year. It spans from 2007 to 2012.
Kevin Morby
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There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.
Sean O'Casey
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A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.
Mark Foley
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The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.
William James
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Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.
Humphry Davy
