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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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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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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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
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Twitter is a blessing and a curse at the same time.
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Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.
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When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.
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...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.
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Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.
