Octave Mirbeau Quotes
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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There is no such thing as being too independent.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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When you're big you don't need a reason to sweat. You don't, right? My friends cannot grab a hold of this concept. They come up to me all the time like 'Jeez! What have you been doing? What are ya jumpin rope in the attic?!' 'Well, I peeled an orange.. about an hour ago. Why, what's up?'
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And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!
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It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?
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Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!
