Denis Diderot Quotes
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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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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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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I love my sleep.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three outlines and two scripts, and everybody has to read them and give notes on all of them, even the writers.
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One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.
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Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure, short of total abstention.
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There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a real and sustained commitment to help end their cycles of violence, and launch them on a safe passage to prosperity.
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
