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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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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Policies that assume that human nature is a tabula rasa (clean slate) should be reviewed and revised to reflect that man has an in-built genetic code for survival with no evidence for innate morality.
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i am always doing things i can't do. that's how i get to do them.
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There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.
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People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.
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Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
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Chi poco pensa, molto erra.
