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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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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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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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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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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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.
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Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
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The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.
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Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
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One of the key drivers of Ireland's future is our balance of trade surplus.
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Terror makes the new future possible. All men one man, Men live in history as never before. He is saying we make an change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch.
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The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
