Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.
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Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.
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You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.
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I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get back in shape after having a baby if I ran the New York City Marathon. I ran in it November 1986. I had just shot the 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit issue, so I was in great shape.
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The only profound thinkers are the ones who do not suffer from a sense of the ridiculous.
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
