Marco Polo Quotes
I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.
Quotes to Explore
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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As we are, so we see.
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As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.
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I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.
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It's so cheesy, but I'm a firm believer in 'If you build it, they will come.'
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I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.
