Paul Valery Quotes

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

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• When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • True
  • Small
  • Child

• I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Mom

• I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Now

• I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Opportunity
  • Always
  • Someone

• My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Up
  • Time
  • Team

• My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Live
  • Family

• Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Up
  • Gay
  • Explore

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• I want to do a make-up line for men.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Want

• I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

  

  Sam Kinison
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  • Time
  • Good

• Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Give

• Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • People
  • Up
  • Future

• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • True
  • Religious

• I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Compassion
  • Genuine

• I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Memory

• I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Love
  • Flying
  • Pants

• Since I was a young girl in the punk scene, almost all of my friends have been gay or lesbian, so for me, it's an obvious answer when it comes to whether or not gay people should be recognized as equal.

  

  Belinda Carlisle
  • People
  • Friends
  • Girl

• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

  

  Paul Valery
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