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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Men Kind Why Others Praise

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Love Time Day Me Singing Doing

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Marriage Happy Short Long Always

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love Respect Man Impossible Face

I didn't know if I should tell people that Johnny Cash had an affair with his sister-in-law while his wife was pregnant. How much does the public need to know about a performer?

Wife People Know Need Tell Cash

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

Doing You Know Why Clothing Seen

When a different type of music is put in front of you, you can choose for yourself what you're supposed to like.

Music Yourself You Choose Different

Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.

Me Team Lawyer Investigation Each

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Time Reflection You Something Lot

The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'

Quality Better Getting Better Drama

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Words People Minds Matters One Thing

I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.

Cool Dark Toys More Out Coming

It's very nice to be asked to anybody's wedding. Particularly if it's the Prince of Wales. I learned a lot from it, which was to end early and get away. I suppose one would have to look back historically and see who other royals had at their weddings. Were there people at Queen Elizabeth's wedding who were common like myself?

Myself Queen People End Wedding See

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