Claudio Monteverdi Quotes
The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Zadie Smith
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
Odeya Rush
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
Danica McKellar
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
Irving Babbitt
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
Iain Duncan Smith
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Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
Samantha Power
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
Harry Caray
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
Carlos Fuentes
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
Olin Miller
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
Sam Hunt
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Zedong
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
Faith Prince
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
Gary Cole
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
Dan Gilbert
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I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
Patti LaBelle
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A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
Barack Obama
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What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say.
Umar
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I'm here to fight; I'm not here to protect whether you think I'm a good person or not. I've given up on that.
Jon Jones
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The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.
Claudio Monteverdi