Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quotes
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
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Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
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I hate birthdays.
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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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Look at the resplendent colours on the soap bubbles! Why is the sea blue?What makes diamond glitter!What makes Hubli So Special Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets
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One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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I became a human placebo.
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How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
