Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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I guess music is very global.
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I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.
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I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.
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A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
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There are two types of teachers. Those who tell you what you want to hear and those who tell you what you don't want to hear.
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In wildness is the preservation of the world.
