Paul Valery Quotes
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
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I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
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I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.
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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
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The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
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Many adult book authors supplement their income by teaching at the college level. Full-time professors fare well, but pay for adjunct professors is notoriously shabby. Children's book authors have a sweeter deal. We're invited by schools, libraries, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies to share our best writing tips and strategies.
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But history tells us that true progress is only possible where governments exist to serve their people, and not the other way around.
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That is why man can also never understand himself: For he is himself a timeless act; an act which he performs continuously, and there is no moment in which he might not perform it, as there would have to be to understand himself.
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p. 96
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you're not a small, you're not a large.
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Bitcoin is probably the most portable money in the history of the world. I can download any amount onto a thumb drive and walk across any border without any problems. Or, I could commit to memory a line of code that I can then input into the network and save or spend Bitcoins.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.
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I enjoyed playing everywhere, especially my mother's garden and my neighbor's. I loved my kindergarten. We sang songs; we played everywhere and ate lunch. I had a childhood that I would wish for anyone.
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It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
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We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
