Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.
Quotes to Explore
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.
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Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov -
There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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I certainly witnessed bullying as a teen in both a small and a big school setting. I feel like it is a universal topic.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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In my experience, 'SNL' has Lorne Michaels, who is, you know, the captain of the ship and gives the show direction and a singular focus, whereas 'MadTV' - even in my 13 episodes there - had maybe one too many cooks and was a bit more chaotic creatively.
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The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.
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Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.
