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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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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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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Exactly. They're stupid. Who cares?" "I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid." She waved her hand. The moon blew away. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I looked at her out of the corner of my eye.
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Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.
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Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.
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A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
