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 came to realize, along with being attracted to girls, I had similar feelings for boys.
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The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
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How hard or easy it is to raise kids, especially while working, is a big part of people's well-being everywhere.
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Swifter, higher, stronger.
