Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man... But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses...

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• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
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• 'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  

  Natalia Makarova
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• If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

  

  Lance Armstrong
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• I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
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• I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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  • Remember
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• Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
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• My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

  

  Ted Danson
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• Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.

  

  Tamsin Greig
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• Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

  

  Walter Koenig
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• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
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• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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• When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

  

  Nate Silver
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• I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Wolf

• You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

  

  K. D. Lang
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  • Music
  • Kids

• My childhood dream? To play at Real Madrid. In 2014, before he died, I promised my grandfather who was from Avila, 110 kilometers from Madrid, that I would play there. It will be complicated, but it sits in a corner of my head.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
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  • Dream
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• In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Mother

• But I come here today, Berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Today

• The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

  

  Anderson Cooper
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• I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, 'Shake it off,' or something like that... or 'Come on, you got to be tough... get back in there.' I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it.

  

  Marv Levy
  • Football

• You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man... But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses...

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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