Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
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When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
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Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.
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Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
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I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?
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As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.
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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a big enough scope and depth to travel outside of Iceland.
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The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.
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Good scripts are hard to find.
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You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.
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I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense!
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I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on whether Facebook wants to try to be less proprietary, be more central to the operation of defining and stewarding identity online.
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Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.
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We flow, we descend, we turn . . . and the eternal dreamerMoves among us like light, like evening air . . .
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In A.I., the holy grail was how do you generate internal representations.
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Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
