Charles Perrault Quotes
Her godmother, who was a fairy, said to her, 'You want to go to the ball, don't you?'
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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
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What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
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But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
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No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.
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I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the plug on society.
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I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
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My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.
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I am a bit old-school.
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By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure.
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'My Fair Godmother's' movie rights sold to the producer who did 'Freaky Friday,' 'Princess Diaries,' and one of my favorite movies - 'Sky High.'
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I'm a New Yorker, so I speak really fast, naturally.
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There was this lynx at a zoo that was called Tove, and that I totally fell in love with. It was my dear godmother who decided to call me Tove Lo, after that lynx. It stuck.
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What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.
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If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.
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A slab of bread 'buttered' with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.
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Hymns are companions for life travelers.
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Her godmother, who was a fairy, said to her, 'You want to go to the ball, don't you?'
