Saadi Quotes
Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.
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A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.
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[I can't start the day without] checking my cellphone... I love messages!
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Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
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Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
