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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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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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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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
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Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation (which is very common in a wide range of fauna). There is only one species on earth, however, which has exhibited homophobia or transphobia. And that is the species homo sapiens sapiens. Us. So let's not allow the foolish, ignorant or bigoted ever to use words like "natural."
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We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.
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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.
