Henry David Thoreau Quotes
I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
Quotes to Explore
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.
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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
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I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we'll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.
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The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.
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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'
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I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family.
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I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
