Paul Valery Quotes
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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I'm an outsider.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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I love Japan; it's very special.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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By becoming aware of the dignity of the mind, we realize the true ground of the dignity of man and therewith the goodness of the world, whither we understand it as created or uncreated, which is the home of man because it is the home of the human mind.
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A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
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In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.
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Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.
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The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
