Henry David Thoreau Quotes

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • American
  • Attention
  • Star

• I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • House
  • Years
  • Over

• I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Work
  • Smart

• I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.

  

  K. Flay
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Feeling

• If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Time
  • Done
  • Party

• My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Support
  • Emotional

• Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Someone
  • Balls
  • Catch

• Life is never free of contradictions.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Life
  • Free
  • Never

• To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Good
  • Better
  • Fathers Day

• Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Fun
  • You
  • Group

• I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Time
  • America
  • Girl

• Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Good
  • Want
  • Change

• I recurred on 'Grey's Anatomy' for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on 'Rescue Me'. And I'd recurred for nine episodes on 'The Practice'. Frankly, the guest star is often the most compelling character.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Time
  • Character
  • Star

• There are a lot of people who don't want things like fashion weeks to happen.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Want
  • Fashion

• I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Like
  • Lead

• I'm superconscious of not putting chemicals on my skin, like parabens and sulfates.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Like
  • Skin
  • Chemicals

• Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • God
  • Marriage
  • Young

• Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

  

  Jacques Audiard
  • She
  • Beautiful

• I certainly wanted Hedwig's world to be one where identification and categories are fluid, changing, and confusing, as they are, really, in life.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Life
  • World

• I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Successful
  • Musician

• Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • People
  • Men
  • Sweet

• I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.

  

  John Hawkes
  • People
  • Up
  • Independent

• For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau