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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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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People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.
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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
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It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
