Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
Quotes to Explore
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I don't like controversy.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.
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I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.
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The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
