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.
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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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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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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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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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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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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.
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I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.
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Whether it's Jack Kennedy or Bill Clinton or others, the personal lives do come into play, and people do judge you for that.
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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.
