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 acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.
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Stewardship of our air and water is a responsibility that should be free of the bias of politics. What's more, environmental regulators should abide by the law.
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Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.
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Sophisticated-looking than the girl he used to know. People in hospitals never looked good. And yet, somehow, she did. Dianna was in the middle of saying something to a thin woman with a severe black haircut who was sitting on a chair beside the bed when she looked up and saw him. Breaking off in the middle of her sentence, she sucked in a deep breath, her face flushing beneath his scrutiny. And yet, even as he mentally dissected all the ways she’d changed, all the reasons they were more different than ever, his body was telling him to get over there, to pull her tight against him and kiss her until they were both gasping for air.
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I've seen the needle and the damage done.A little part of it in everyone.But every junkie's like a settin' sun.
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The air which is struck with most swiftness by the movable thing is compressed to the greatest degree in itself.
