Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
The air which is struck with most swiftness by the movable thing is compressed to the greatest degree in itself.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'
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When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
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My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
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You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.
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I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.
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I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.
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Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.
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I have remarked, in the course of such air travel as I have done, that the airmen of all nations have a common resemblance to each other and that the patriotic virus in their blood is largely corrected by a wider professionalism.
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.
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When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
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The air which is struck with most swiftness by the movable thing is compressed to the greatest degree in itself.
