Paul Valery Quotes
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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
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For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
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In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.
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Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
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I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.
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I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.
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They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
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I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.
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It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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I’ve known a lot of talented people but the people that really, really, achieve success – there is ambition, focus and drive behind it.
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Nobody was better at moving between different groups of people than he was. But I also think this was an aspect of his personality that ended up being very damaging to him. He had three personas he was trying to juggle: he had his married-man persona, at home with the wife; the laddish side; and the cerebral, literary side.
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I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do that continually.
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I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.
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The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
