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Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.
Henry David ThoreauRead
Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.
Wallace StegnerRead
Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.
Jackie RobinsonRead
Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.
David FincherRead
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria MontessoriRead
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Michel De MontaigneRead
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel De MontaigneRead
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
Marilyn MonroeRead
There is a movie called “Fargo” playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see “Little Indian, Big City,” I will never let you read one of my reviews again.
Roger EbertRead
There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.
Peter UstinovRead
And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.
Carrie FisherRead
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.
Dwight D. EisenhowerRead
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
Mason CooleyRead
There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.
Neil GaimanRead
Oh, I'd love to wear a rainbow everyday, _x000D_ And tell the world that everything's okay, _x000D_ But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back, _x000D_ Till things are brighter, I'm the Man in Black.
Johnny CashRead
But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.
Mary Tyler MooreRead
I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
Maria MitchellRead
As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy's or Nordstrom's and see their face staring back at them - I wouldn't believe them.
Nicki MinajRead
There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.
Neil Degrasse TysonRead
I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.
Marilyn MonroeRead
The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.
Sandra BullockRead

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