Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

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You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Maxim Gorky

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Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

Roger Ascham

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When Mubarak does die, he will be remembered as the most bland of those military men turned dictators: compare him with Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Anwar Sadat. The legacies most associated with him are a network of bridges and highways and 'stability.'

Mona Eltahawy

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It is so gratifying to hear from people who look up to you and see you in these places that they never thought they could ever dream to be. It's emotional. You really feel like you're opening up people's minds, who otherwise thought that they couldn't dream big. That's such a huge opportunity. It's such a gift.

Julia Jones

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I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.

Jason Moran

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'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good.

Jon Favreau

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I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

Jonathan Brandis

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Everyone should dance. And everyone should sing. People say, 'Well, I can't sing.' Everybody can sing. That you do it badly is no reason not to sing.

Dick Van Dyke

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I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

David Warner

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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Confucius

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People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels.

Claire Tomalin

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I allow those phones to ring, and I go straight to it. As a result, I get some very, very strange phone calls.

Art Bell

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