Henry David Thoreau Quotes
It is so rare to meet with a man out-doors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands.
Quotes to Explore
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.
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I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.
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The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.
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His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because they were his, like his terrified rage in the lift when they had first met, being wrapped in his arms in the cold well, being dazzled by his wonder at the woods and her home and her. Like being a child, awareness of him the morning chorus that woke her and the lullaby that sent her to sleep, his thoughts always her first and last song.I love you, Kami told him, and cut.
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I believe in prayer. I pray every night.
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It is so rare to meet with a man out-doors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands.
