Marquis de Lafayette Quotes
Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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All of us grow.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
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We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.
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I like action-adventure movies.
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So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.
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Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
