Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
Quotes to Explore
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.
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I think my greatest moments in life are family moments, births and marriages.
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Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.
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If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
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The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
