Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
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Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
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Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the most respected business persons.
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Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.
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If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
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If she chuses to set free one or two of my slaves she is to have full power to do so.
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Lets you and I try to live on food stamps in New Jersey (high cost of living) and feed a family for a week or month. U game?
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Clichés are the armature of the Absolute. (Source: Alfred Jarry, Selected Works, edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor. Cape, London, 1965).
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I think we're always going to be based in New York. So I would say 50 percent New York and the other 50 percent around the world.
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I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.
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I never think people should do things for me. I think I should do things for others. That makes me more comfortable.
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I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.
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I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
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I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.
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I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.
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He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
