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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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proverbiosI think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. ~Francis Schaeffer
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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I have never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade. ~George Carlin
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Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world. ~Frederick Lenz
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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. ~Leonardo DiCaprio
#quotes #leonardo-dicaprio #humanity #environment
People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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