Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Feathers shall raise men towards the heaven even as they do the birds:-That is by the letters written by their quills.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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They prevented men from doing anything. But they did nothing themselves. They did not rule, they only blighted.
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The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.
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Feathers shall raise men towards the heaven even as they do the birds:-That is by the letters written by their quills.
