Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'
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I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.
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Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.
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It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian.
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The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
