Henry David Thoreau Quotes
What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.
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I realised that acting is not my god.
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What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?
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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.
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Teaching girls to agitate over every problem implies that relationships, and people, can bend to our will.
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What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?
