Paul Valery Quotes
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery
Quotes to Explore
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Carlo Ponti
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
Malorie Blackman
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
Laura Benanti
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
Patrick Wilson
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
Samuel Fuller
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
Parker Harris
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
Rachael Ray
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
Faye Wattleton
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
Ada Yonath
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
Salman Rushdie
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
Carlene Carter
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
Ilan Stavans
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My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
J. R. Moehringer
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
Ban Ki-moon
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
Young Thug
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I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.
Lana Parrilla
