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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Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.
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Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
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I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.
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Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.
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I'm pretty careful about making sure that when I choose to do something, it's for the right reasons and that I really connect with it and care about it. So if the right musical came along, yes, I would totally do it!
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
