Epicharmus of Kos Quotes
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
Venus Williams
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
Camille Paglia
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
Barry Jenkins
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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
Walter Raleigh
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Knowledge about things beyond our immediate environment may be acquired through deduction, if the initial premises are believed to be correct.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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My girl has gone, and said goodbye.Don't you cry, hold your head up high.Don't give up, give love one more try,'Cause there's a right girl for every guy.
Smokey Robinson
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Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness...Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile...Not a single one but has at some time wept.
H. G. Wells
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For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'
Jenny Lewis
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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even more. He is making the fetter even stronger. But he who takes pleasure in stilling his thoughts, practising the contemplation of what is repulsive, and remaining recollected, now he will make an end of craving, he will snap the bonds of Mara. His aim is accomplished, he is without fear, rid of craving and without stain. He has removed the arrows of changing existence. This is his last body.
Gautama Buddha
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A mortal should think mortal thoughts, not immortal thoughts.
Epicharmus of Kos
