Theophrastus Quotes
Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.
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I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
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He wrote stories about everything he saw, and he saw a lot. He walked through the streets of Brooklyn along the water, or leaned against the store windows on Livingston Street watching people hurrying along, making up stories about this one or that one.
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If anyone has the attention span of a crazed amoeba, they should enjoy all of these episodes!
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
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There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]
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Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.
