Livy Quotes
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.
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There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.
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The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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I like having curves - I'm proud of them!
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
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If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.
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Mr Liversedge...saw the whole ridiculous Oriental susah in true proportion. Here men would murder for five dollars, here men would seek divorce because their wives sighed at the handsomeness of the film star P.Ramlee....nodding at the lucid exposition of Mr Lim from Penang, though contemning inwardly the Pommie accent...
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I must before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet – a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and fearful passionless force of non-human things...
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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
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It doesn't mean much;It doesn't mean anything at all.The life I've left behind meIs a cold room.I've crossed the last lineFrom where I can't return.Where every step I took in faithBetrayed meAnd led me from my home.And sweet sweet surrenderIs all that I have to give.
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Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground-I screamed and instantly ran mad! We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an hour and a quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation.
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The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.
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I opened Union Square Cafe when I was just 27 years old, and my first hope was simply that it would stay in business. My higher hope was that in its lifetime, it might grow to play an essential role in the lives of its stakeholders.
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My brain has a weird way of turning pressure into other things. I make a point to myself of shrugging it off - of going the other way and doing something for myself, wanting to do something better. For example, I know that I could have made 'Lonerism 2.0' in a day, but it wouldn't have satisfied me.
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You take the thing that is the worst thing that could have happened to you, the worst challenge in your life, and you turn it into fuel. You don't give up. And that's what Gotham is about.
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I tell people to have a relationship with their work every day, even if it means you just move a comma.
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After graduating college, I finally allowed myself to strive for what I loved to do, even if there were no guarantees that I would be able to make a living off of acting. This, combined with my life experiences prior - like stars aligning - led me to this lovely role of Katana within the DC Comics universe.
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I never thought I would say this, but I'm desperate to do an action film.
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Temerity is not always successful.
