Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

When you represent in your work shadows which you can only discern with difficulty, and of which you cannot distinguish the edges so that you apprehend them confusedly, you must not make them sharp or definite lest your work should have a wooden effect.

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• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hair

• I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

  

  Randall Park
  • Want
  • Like
  • See

• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
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• My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

  

  Kate Brown
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• I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.

  

  Samantha Isler
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  • Football
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• I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • She
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• I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Crazy

• I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Like
  • Dark

• A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • End
  • Street

• I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

  

  Dan Rather
  • World
  • America
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• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
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• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
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• Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • You
  • Modern
  • Whatever

• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  

  Cal Thomas
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• The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Truth
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• I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Zendaya
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  • Want
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• If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Stereotypes

• When you're performing, you're creating a moment.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Moments
  • Creating
  • Performing

• I'm a guy that likes to work in the spa and get on the elliptical.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Work
  • Guy

• I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't know whether you recall how Albany got started. There were two little guys who went up there first. One was Cordell Hull who was then in his teens - not Cordell Hull - Cordell Reagan, who came out of the Nashville movement, and Charles Sherrod, who came out of the Richmond, Virginia, movement.

  

  Ella Baker
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• We all know that there are different scripted programs out there, and we're all facing the same challenges in terms of ratings and everything else, but I think that there is a lot of opportunity to be had as well, and what I'm excited to do is to get to explore that.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Explore

• I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.

  

  Billy Beane
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• When you represent in your work shadows which you can only discern with difficulty, and of which you cannot distinguish the edges so that you apprehend them confusedly, you must not make them sharp or definite lest your work should have a wooden effect.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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