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I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

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Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. ↗

— George Crumb

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I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

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People read me but they don't subscribe. ↗

— Jay London

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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. ↗

— Yann Martel

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