Leonard Nimoy Quotes
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
Quotes to Explore
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.
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Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
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Part of my aim is to exhibit some general and structural features of the conceptual scheme in terms of which we think about particular things.
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Nothing would mean anything if I didn't live a life of use to others.
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I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know - the guy from 'Perfect Strangers.'
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A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
