Denis Diderot Quotes
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win.
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We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.
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My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
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I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
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I love interpreting other people's music.
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I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.
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There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.
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I just submitted what I had to the 'Octopus Books' contest open reading period, and they said they wanted to publish my poetry book. Then I started to publish more and more poetry because people would ask me to do readings or ask me submit something for their journal.
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God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
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I make good music for long journeys.
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I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.
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I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For example, there's some play in the steering column before it engages as you're turning the wheel.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
