Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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To survive is to win.
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In response to 4 Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say.
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God moves in mysterious ways. All gods do. It's the only way they can work.
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Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?
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Let’s just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'
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'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
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Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.
