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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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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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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Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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Maybe the Lord's word is decisive on that: The poor are always with us. You know, you'll never run out of people, you can help.
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I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.
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We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
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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.
