Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse.
Quotes to Explore
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.
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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.
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Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse.
