Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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I love proving people wrong.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
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I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.
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I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.
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I want a '57 Starfire Olds.
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What do I bring to a film? I think, maybe, I know for a fact that I focus on connection of character; I focus on warmth and a heart, but I don't know if it's because I'm African American or because I'm crazy -who knows.
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I want to inspire, and be inspired.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a music video.
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Writing is a strange and solitary activity.
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Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
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I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.
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I was on a panel with Marshall McLuhan in Canada. Someone says, 'Mr. McLuhan, I read your book, and I disagree with you.' And he says, 'Oh, you read my book? Then you only know half the story.'
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There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.
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The light was muted gray in the moment before sunrise and the birdsong was a hymn to the new day and all the glorious business of living in the moment.
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Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
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Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.
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To enjoy-to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
