Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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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've not gotten so much stuff because I improvise in an audition, but I always feel like, if that's the case, the reason is because it wouldn't have worked out anyway with us working together.
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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.
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To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off.
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I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.
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If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
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I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.
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Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.
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Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
