Paul Valery Quotes
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
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The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists … the incidence is ten times greater.
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Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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There was a time in the '90s where, as an African-American man, you had to be a misogynistic R&B star or a rapper, and I didn't fit into either one of those. I was advised by my label to remain closeted at that time.
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When people didn't really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.
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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
