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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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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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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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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There is a certain depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation: the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the only movement is the passage of time. One cannot bear to live through another loss of function, and sometimes friends and family cannot bear to watch. An unspoken, unbridgeable divide may widen. Even if you are still who you were, you cannot actually fully be who you are.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
