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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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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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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Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
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Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, "I'm the writer."
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I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.
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The stars are silent.Voyager among dark harbors, I listen, but the midnight wind carries only the sound of trees and water lapping against the gunwale and the solitary cry of the night swallow.There is no dawn. No searing sun rises in east or west. The rocks over Calumal do not silver, and the great round world slides through the void.
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It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.
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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.
