Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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I don't put myself under pressure.
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
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I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
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To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
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France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.
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Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
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I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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In the armies and among every ten men there is one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who with his courage, with words and by example keeps the others firm and disposed to fight.
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My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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I want people to know where I come from. I think I have come really far from that, and I did it on my own. It's sort of the American dream to come from absolutely nothing and to succeed while still doing something that you love. Not compromising yourself in any way. I hope I'm making Jersey proud in that way.
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Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
