Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life.
Quotes to Explore
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I've traveled around the world.
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I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
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I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink. It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.
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Men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life.
