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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

World Preservation Wildness

Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.

Hollywood Standards Modest Very

My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.

Son Age Parents Me Questions Asking

Never stand in the middle of two people having a fight, because you'll always come off worse.

Fight People Stand You Never Middle

If you can't play under pressure, you shouldn't be at a World Cup.

World Pressure You Play Cup

I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Music Saying Regret Think Bad Find

I never thought I would tweet - I thought it was too dangerous.

Lloyd Blankfein

Thought Dangerous Never Would Tweet

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

Work Me Alive Craft Theater Allowed

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

History Time Man Reality Development

Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Good Medicine You Down Sometimes

I wasn't always minimal. In the early days, I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. And then I grew tired of it as well.

Tired Trying Early More Hard Right

I was dating my first boyfriend in high school for a long time, and we broke up before prom. I hadn't met anyone else that I really wanted to go with, and my friends have always been amazing. So I went with my friends and got a million photos with them!

Time Dating School Amazing Friends

We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act.

Time Think Thinking Reach Will Act

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