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 simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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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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I would like to be a polyglot.
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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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As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.
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You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.
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Whether I'm going out for the night, or during the day, I love putting on something that pops and makes you feel comfortable.
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Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it is a serious mistake. If I had my way, the whole subject of feelings and emotions in the religious life would be absolutely ignored. Feelings there will be, doubtless, but they must not be in the least depended on, nor in any sense taken as the test or gauge of one's religion. They ought to be left out of the calculation entirely. You may feel good or you may feel bad, but neither the good feeling nor the bad feeling affects the real thing.
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When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
