Washington Irving Quotes
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Quotes to Explore
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
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I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up - you can't avoid that if you're a person of color in this country.
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My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.
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If you're really looking to hurt somebody's feelings, just break up with them.
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Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
