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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

Topics

Friendship Solitude Society House

Thank you, people who say 'Wow, you're really photogenic,' for not saying what you really mean: 'Wow, you're really ugly in person.'

Ugly People Saying Thank You You

I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.

Long New Leaving Over See Tunnel

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

Johannes P. Muller

Light Experience Sound Difficulty

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

Quality Claim Easier Than Defect

'Billionaire' is basically about, you know, like 'Brewster's Millions.' It's me talking about what would happen if I would somehow manage to become a billionaire. What would I do with the money? Don't get it wrong, I'm far from a billionaire. I think I just made it out the 'thousandaire' category.

Money Me Think Talking You Wrong

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

Change I Am Qualities Arrive Defects

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

History Art Bird World Song Wild

Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.

Me Drum Up Pretty Led Zeppelin Made

What is it like to get in someone's head and hunt them from inside their eyes? That's so freaky to me.

Eyes Me Someone Inside Head Get

The transition to clean energy should not be viewed as a burden to be overcome but, rather, an extraordinary job creation opportunity for the United States.

Opportunity Job Energy Transition

You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are.

People You Meet Need Own Your

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

Good Great Will Hard Decide Sure

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