Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quotes
In rain water, I observed a small red worm and two other kinds of very minute insects; of those of the larger size, I judged that 30,000 together would not equal a coarse sand.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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There is no truly global justice.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
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No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.
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Whatever God would want me to do... love each other and help others. I want to add, not take away.
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It is of small importance whether De Stijl still exists as a 'group'; a new style was born, a new aesthetic created; it needs only to be understood – and cultivated.
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Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.
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In rain water, I observed a small red worm and two other kinds of very minute insects; of those of the larger size, I judged that 30,000 together would not equal a coarse sand.
