Paul Valery Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
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I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.
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Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.
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Most people think the character I do onstage is the way I am offstage, but I'm just a regular guy who spends time with his family and who turns on the television and watches a lot of sports.
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Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
