Alexander von Humboldt Quotes

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

Alexander von Humboldt

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• I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.

  

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• I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  

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• The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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• Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Community
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• I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with 'Space Jam.' Right after that movie, I went out there to my little Flight hoop and tried to do every dunk in the movie.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Life
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• I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Freedom
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• I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.

  

  Halsey
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• When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.

  

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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• When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Life
  • Great
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• I live in Los Angeles and I had been drinking one night, so I was on the walk of fame and I saw Tony Danza's star and I started urinating on it. Just yelling out, 'Who's the boss now?'

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Time
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• There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Meat
  • Peril

• God made men by baking them in an oven, but he forgot about the first batch, and that's how Black people were born. And then he was so anxious about the next batch, he took them out of the oven too soon, so that's how White people were made. But the third batch he let cook until they were golden-golden-golden, and, honey, that's you and me.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Men
  • Black

• At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

  

  Alexander von Humboldt
  • Wealth
  • Concentrated
  • Cocoa Bean