Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
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I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'
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As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
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Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.
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Then he rose and began to pace the room in an overwrought sort of way, like a zoo lion who has heard the dinner-gong go and is hoping the keeper won't forget him in the general distribution.
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We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.
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Americans will not buy irregular-looking or oddly shaped vegetables!
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In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over.
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When I do a T.V. show, I hear all these artists in their dressing rooms doing scales - I've never done it because I've never had voice training. What I do to prepare is get in my car and sing along to the radio for about 20 minutes.
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Chi poco pensa, molto erra.
