Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Quotes to Explore
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character.
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This is a continuation of what I started two years ago with 'Don Giovanni.' I want to continue this tradition of bringing highlights of great operas on the series.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
