Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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The challenges are gonna go, and your children are gonna grow, so try to enjoy this moment, and try to look at what's good, and be grateful for what you have because you will see better days.
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Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
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The fact is that one significant way the Iranians have a posture different from the North Koreans, the North Koreans basically are saying we have a nuclear program. We are seeking weapons. We have produced weapons. We're proud of the fact that we have weapons.
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Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.
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Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
