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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quotes

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: dutch
Birth: 1632 - 1723

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People Thought Discovery Down Duty

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

Jennifer Lopez

Life My Life Die Trying You Know

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

Robert Redford

Money Value End Place Achieving

The fantasy world, the 'Game of Thrones' world, the forgotten realms worlds - they're the type of worlds I've always wanted to live in. Where vampires, dragons, dwarves and elves are real.

Robert Kazinsky

Live World Game Fantasy Real Always

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious.

Angelina Jolie

Think Parent You Lose Serious Kind

Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard.

Michael Gambon

Funny Beard Long White Why Old

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

Tony Garza

Friendship Government People Name

The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

Shirley Manson

Good Voice Learn Enough Powerful

In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a healthy breath. Still, to say that life wasn't fair for this awkwardly glib, yet deeply religious woman, would fail to take into account her towering instinct for survival.

Rodney Crowell

Life Mother Time Woman Survival Say

If we're honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives. If you don't believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself, 'Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst would happen to me and my loved ones?'

Joseph Prince

Yourself Me Believe Loved You Wrong

My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?

Dikembe Mutombo

Mother Food School Start Year You

It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change.

Donna Brazile

Change Moment Start Ripple Person

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

Chris Matthews

Power Down President Defend Policy