Emile Zola Quotes
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
Quotes to Explore
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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System Of A Down/ Mars Volta Tour Dates Announced.
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First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.
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I would say doing film is all about trust and conviction. It's about believing in an idea.
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Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
