Xenophanes Quotes
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
Xenophanes
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
Basmah bint Saud
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
Yulia Tymoshenko
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
Wendy Cope
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I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
Nathan Fillion
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
Daniel Clowes
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
Sam Harris
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
Kate Smith
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
Nargis Fakhri
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
Uzo Aduba
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Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.
Irvine Welsh
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Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddamn rules.
Maria Callas
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In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
Tavis Smiley
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We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.
Cyril Ramaphosa
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
John James Audubon
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
Xenophanes
