Bernard of Chartres Quotes
We are like dwarfs the moderns sitting on the shoulders of giants the ancients. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
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We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.
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I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
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I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.
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Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
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Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.
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I've always been interested in the antihero myself.
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She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good.
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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
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When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.
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We are like dwarfs the moderns sitting on the shoulders of giants the ancients. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.
