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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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 was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.
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My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
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It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
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'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
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One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.
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A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.
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Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.
