Thomas à Kempis Quotes
At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
Quotes to Explore
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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It's important to see color. We are not the same. We have very different experiences.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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It's really easy to end up on the 'Daily Mail' if you put yourself in situations where you'll end up on the 'Daily Mail,' and it's really easy to not if you don't do that.
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From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
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I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.
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None whatsoever.
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When all is said and done, I want to die exhausted and empty because I gave everything that was in me. I believe that's why we're all here: to give of ourselves to one another to help create a better world, because you can't take it with you.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.
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At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
