Pursued Quotes - Page 17

• I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

  Brandon Boyd

  Birthday, Important, Age

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• Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

  Robertson Davies

  Funny, Wise, Dog

  Robertson Davies (1968). “Marchbanks' almanack”

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• I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Actors, Roles, Stories

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• Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

  Michael J. Fox

  Zoos, Animal, Needs

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• A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ghana, Liable, Creeds

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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  Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  God, Spiritual, Life And Love

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• There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.

  Jack Kemp

  Causes, Concern, Policy

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• Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

  Dean Koontz

  Real, Book, Evil

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• Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.

  Robert Lanza

  Reality, Views, Special

  "A New Theory of the Universe: Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the equation". theamericanscholar.org. March 1, 2007.

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• Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Humility, Virtue

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• We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Patriotic, Enemy

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Liberty, Slavery

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• I just went along with political activists and interested in other intellectual interests which I pursued kind of at random. I never had a real college education. I got a degree, but it was just patching together courses here and there.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, College, Political

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.

  Claude Nicollier

  Dream, Children, Two

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