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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All diseases run into one, old age.
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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 never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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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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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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I go through the same kind of situations as other people. I have to give that to people, because people have this facade, this mirage, this mirror about me.
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The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.
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The United Nations has an irreplaceable role in dealing with global issues. While other international bodies play important roles, the U.N. is the only truly global arena where we can achieve results for the global good.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
