Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Quotes to Explore
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.
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It's been said of me that I must get out of bed every morning and go cartwheeling down the road. Of course it's not true. There certainly was a time in my 20s when I wanted a bit of freedom, and I found that difficult, but if I'm ever having a time when I'm feeling sorry for myself, something always jolts me back.
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Sometimes when we have so much going on, it's easy to forsake the things that seem like personal luxuries - for example, our morning run. But it isn't a luxury at all, when it is the thing that allows us and empowers us to face everything else.
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We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.
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Nothing’s different, but everything has changed.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
