Saadi Quotes
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Quotes to Explore
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.
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Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
