Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
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Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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I always wanted to go in a cave.
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.
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I give so much credit to the 'Up' team who created appointment viewing on the weekends for us and some of the smartest conversations on television.
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I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
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And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good. And I'd love to be with you if only I could.
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Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.
