Alexandra David-Neel Quotes
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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There's nothing like simple spicy egg bhurji.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
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I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
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Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.
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Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.
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Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?
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The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
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It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
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The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
