Henry David Thoreau Quotes
I am a parcel of vain strivings tiedBy a chance bond together,Dangling this way and that, their linksWere made so loose and wide,Methinks,For milder weather.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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I grew up on films.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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I'm just not very funny.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.
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Overcome the devils with a thing called love.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Fargo.'
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I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
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Put together, what we want is a system that supports, protects, and properly pays good teachers and makes it possible in a responsible and fair way to remove teachers judged to be incompetent or abusive - that's it.
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Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.
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I am a parcel of vain strivings tiedBy a chance bond together,Dangling this way and that, their linksWere made so loose and wide,Methinks,For milder weather.
