Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Men are in error when they lament the flight of time, accusing it of being too swift, and not perceiving that it is sufficient as it passes; but good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes things long past to seem present.

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• Seeing a catering truck feels like home.

  

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• She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

  

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• Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

  

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• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

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• Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

  

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• Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

  

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• My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

  

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• I make all my decisions on intuition.

  

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• When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.

  

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• My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.

  

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• No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.

  

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• I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.

  

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• I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

  

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• It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.

  

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• With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.

  

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• I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

  

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• I don't think the candidate would be directly responsible for things that their supporters say, but when it gets to a certain level, they ought to say, 'Cut it out.'

  

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• As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

  

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• There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

  

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• Sometimes something good has to be subtracted from our lives before something better can take its place.

  

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• Men are in error when they lament the flight of time, accusing it of being too swift, and not perceiving that it is sufficient as it passes; but good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes things long past to seem present.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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