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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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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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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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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I want to see more people push what it means to be a web show... because it's very difficult to make a living making those types of shows.
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No government is ever going to get it perfect. The job of policymakers is to continue seeking perfection and making it better and constantly reassessing to ensure that the students and the parents are getting the most out of the education system.
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The thing that makes us root for Spider-Man as he swings across the city is that he's either having the time of his life or worrying about whether he'll be able to get a good grade on that English paper or whether or not he's going to make it home in time for Aunt May to make his dinner.
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The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
