Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.Henry David Thoreau
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
Garth Brooks -
When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
Taylor Swift -
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
Imtiaz Ali -
Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
N. Murray Edwards -
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
Vincent Canby
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
Mae Jemison -
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
Fidel Castro -
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
Adam Pascal -
Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
Dan Jenkins -
My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
Ira Sachs -
I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
Taya Kyle
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
Bashar al-Assad -
What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
Rand Paul -
If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
Zooey Deschanel -
My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
Nate Diaz -
The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
Barton Gellman -
I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
Malala Yousafzai
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Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
Naomi Watts -
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden -
The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.
Gabrielle Bernstein -
Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives.
Chelsea Cain -
From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.
Emile Zola -
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau