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 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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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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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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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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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.
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Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
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Almighty Freedom! give my venturous song The force, the charm that to thy voice belong; Tis thine to shape my course, to light my way, To nerve my country with the patriot lay, To teach all men where all their interest lies, How rulers may be just and nations wise: Strong in thy strength I bend no suppliant knee, Invoke no miracle, no Muse but thee.
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Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.
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God deserves more love than the world gives him. Men, too, need more love than they receive from the world. Our community wants to take her place where these two needs meet.
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The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.
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I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.
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I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago... the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.
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The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
