Very Quotes
38661 quotes by 14998 authors
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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
— Aaliyah
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
— Hannah Arendt
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
— Hannah Arendt
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very…
— Hannah Arendt
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history…
— Hannah Arendt
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In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
— Dario Argento
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Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around…
— Giorgio Armani
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
— Paul Auster
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in…
— Paul Auster
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed…
— Paul Auster
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
— Karen Armstrong
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key,…
— Karen Armstrong
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger…
— Karen Armstrong
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I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.
— Karen Armstrong
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my…
— Neil Armstrong
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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
— Neil Armstrong
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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
— Darren Aronofsky
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Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for…
— Frank Abagnale
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others…
— Arthur Ashe
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