Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
Quotes to Explore
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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The Creeper in the 'Katana' series is the same Creeper that will be in 'Villains Month.'
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Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
