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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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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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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If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.
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I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.
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Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.
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My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.
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I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.
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The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.
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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.
