Henry David Thoreau Quotes
He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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I've always maintained that the problem in India is that we only give credit to big contributions.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
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Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
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I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
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I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.
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Music’s playin’ up and down the blockMostly Christian, Blues, Country, Folk, and Southern RockIt’s our little piece of paradise way out here in the woodsThere is always somethin’ goin’ on down in the trailerhood.
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Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.
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He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.
