Baldassare Castiglione Quotes
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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I dreamed my way into Lincoln and the details that moved me - his lack of education or 'civilized' manners and his deep connection to all humankind.
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Every time you do a project, you learn something new.
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I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.
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I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.
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I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.
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Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.
