Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.
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Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
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I hate exercising self-control.
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We have to look to the well-being of the Lebanese citizens and create prosperity in the country, and you can't create prosperity without stability.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.
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As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
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It's good to be intuitive.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
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'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.
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I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.
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I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
