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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From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.
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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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All 'Hamlets' are different, and it's the most overwritten play ever written.
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If you ask any of us which movie we were making when one of our kids was born, we'll be able to tell you instantly. It's like our family lives are permanently woven into the movies.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
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Swifter, higher, stronger.
