Pierre Loti Quotes
My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
Quotes to Explore
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I am a very selfish person.
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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
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I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through the gates of the city into the great beyond, the wide, unbounded future of glory that is for the redeemed.
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When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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I don't develop anything. I don't practice, I don't rehearse. I just go out there, and it's just amazing and unpredictable and spontaneous every single time. It's the most cultivating incredible performance that you can go and see live for the amount of money that you can see it for.
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My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
