Henry David Thoreau Quotes
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours … In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Quotes to Explore
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.
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The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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I think the important thing is that I've never tried to be someone I'm not. People can read right through that.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours … In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
