Jacques Delille Quotes
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.
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The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.
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I was going to be a doctor since I was three, so I was pre-med in college. Everything I did, every class I took, pointed toward the 'holy M.D.' Friends were taking wine-tasting classes, studying human sexuality, or redefining their views of the world in poli-sci, and I was memorizing anatomy and crying over o-chem.
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I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.
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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
