Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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My best friend is my husband.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.
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By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
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My mother always wanted to give back.
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Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
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Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.
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After the first million, money isn't important.
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We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.
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Call me irresponsibleYes, I'm unreliableBut it's undeniably trueThat I'm irresponsibly mad for you.
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What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet-only science would put them on the same tree.
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I'm a shopper but not a big money/label-y shopper. It makes me a nervous wreck.
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Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!
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Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.
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I'm just the biggest klutz. That's the problem. I don't get hurt doing cool things.
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Swifter, higher, stronger.
