Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
The atmosphere is blue by reason of the darkness above it because black and white make blue.
Quotes to Explore
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.
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You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
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I have very old-fashioned tastes.
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My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.
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I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.
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The atmosphere is blue by reason of the darkness above it because black and white make blue.
