Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity, when contrasted with a finer intelligence.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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The pressure is on the big teams.
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The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
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The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of her works, is-Time!-Time!-Time!
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I can't play guitar like Pete Townshend. The flip side of that is that Pete Townshend could probably never have played like me.
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Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity, when contrasted with a finer intelligence.
