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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The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
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You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.
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A woman in the audience asked Barack Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of a certain kind of procedure. Her doctor didn't want to do it because of her age. However, another doctor did and told this woman there is a joy of life in this person. The woman asked President Obama how he would deal with this sort of thing, and Obama said we cannot consider the joy of life in this situation. He said I would advise her to take a pain killer. That is the essence of the President of the United States.
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If people looked at me like I was a little different, I would maybe sit next to them, and I would draw.
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A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
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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.
