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 believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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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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It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.
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Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.
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It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
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My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues.
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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.
