Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
When I did well, as a boy you used to put me in prison. Now if I do it being grown up, you will do worse to me.
Quotes to Explore
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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God is never early and never late.
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All around me, I see girls forced to become rat racers in the College Application Industrial Complex, the subculture where students must craft themselves into the perfect specimens for college admission and often lose their authenticity, love of learning, and sense of self in the process.
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If you think about the under-30 generation, the millennial generation - GenTech, as I call them - they grew up with a screen in front of them. And so they think about everyday processes, like payments, differently than you and I do.
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Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
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When I did well, as a boy you used to put me in prison. Now if I do it being grown up, you will do worse to me.
