Emile Zola Quotes
Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.
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Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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There is no more beautiful scenery or climate for summer travel than Switzerland presents. The people are industrious and honest, simple and frugal in their habits, and would be very poor with all this, if it were not from the travel through their country. I wish their surplus population would emigrate to the United States.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
