Alexandra David-Neel Quotes
As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.
Alexandra David-Neel
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
Gary Speed
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
Fat Joe
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. Flay
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
Yair Lapid
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
Laura Mvula
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilya Ehrenburg
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Patch Adams
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
Vanessa Lengies
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To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
Zhang Yimou
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I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.
Taron Egerton
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
Barack Obama
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Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.
Ferdinand Foch
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The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil.
Anthony Burgess
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We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
Antoine Lavoisier
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
Denis Diderot
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What keeps me going is that young people still want to see me.
Don Rickles
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Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.
Jane Pauley
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All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
bell hooks
