Filippo Brunelleschi Quotes
To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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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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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.
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I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!
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Bosnia and Herzegovina has done what many said was impossible even a year ago, let alone at the start of my mandate in May 2002. For the country now stands at the gates of Europe, ... This is a truly remarkable achievement for a country as war-torn as Bosnia and Herzegovina was just 10 years ago.
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To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
