Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.
Quotes to Explore
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
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One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.
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I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!
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The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
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I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.
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I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.
