Paul Valery Quotes
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I am not honest.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I have got everything which a politician needs.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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When I hosted 'Win, Lose or Draw,' it was always fascinating to me that no one knew where anything was when they had to draw a destination.
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Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.
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Staying fit is all about trying to find enjoyment in something physical, because that's the only way you're gonna get results.
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Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.
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Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
