Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Henry David Thoreau

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
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• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
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• If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Man
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• There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Never
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• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
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• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Love
  • History

• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Trouble
  • Laugh
  • Class

• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Thing
  • Director
  • Cut

• You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.

  

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  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Want

• When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

  

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  • Life
  • Remember
  • Dark

• Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

  

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  • Time
  • Dog
  • Pet

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Always
  • Really
  • Pass

• I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

  

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  • Love
  • Wanna
  • Kurt Cobain

• My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Parents
  • Road
  • Dance

• People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • People
  • Looking
  • Perfection

• I don't like dirty. That's why I hate cigarettes. A little bit of alcohol is O.K., but no drugs. And I like to sleep alone because I wake up, I walk around, I bring my computer with me to bed, I have a great time.

  

  Jean Pigozzi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.

  

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  • Text

• As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Moving
  • Wind

• Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard (p. 244).

  

  Benjamin Jowett
  • True
  • Feeling

• The ‘total state’ of fascism is not a political alignment within the existing political and social setup, but that it is a revolution which, like all revolutions, works from without.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Political
  • Revolution

• Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
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