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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes. It is a mistake to think that one limits one's risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence. . . . One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
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The details are not the details. They make the design.
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People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.
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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
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Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.
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I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
