Xenophanes Quotes
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.Xenophanes
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
F. Gary Gray -
Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
Karen Elson -
Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
Zig Ziglar -
What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
Randy Falco -
In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
Viggo Mortensen -
I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
Harbhajan Singh
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But I think we need the international market.
Zhang Yimou -
There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
Dana Rohrabacher -
I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
Sam Smith -
Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
Gavin Newsom -
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
Jack Vance -
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
Mac Davis
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
Wayne Grady -
I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
Flo Rida -
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Queen Christina -
I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
Damien Chazelle -
I love action movies.
Adam McKay
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I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.
Gayl Jones -
On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.
Kevin Morby -
The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.
Og Mandino -
Common sense to one person might be something different to another.
Taya Kyle -
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.
Rabindranath Tagore -
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
Xenophanes