Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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I'm not a great writer.
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I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody.
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.
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As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
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When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head.
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If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.
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I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.
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For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.
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Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish - I love salmon - with grilled vegetables and salad.
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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.
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From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were always women fronting bands and playing guitar or backing up and playing drums or bass in a band. That probably contributed to my belief in myself to go out and perform for people.
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Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks.
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Although computer science tends to be thought of as a traditionally male-dominated field, the world’s first programmer was a woman.
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Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.
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He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
