Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes
You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.
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You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
