Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'
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I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.
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All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
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As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.
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I enjoyed working at R.K.O. more than at M.G.M. At R.K.O., the parts were better!
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I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
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A buddy of mine was mad at his son the other day 'cause he got caught having sex with his teacher. I thought, 'Hey, that's pretty cool!' Problem was, he was home-schooled.
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Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
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The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his … genius.
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The stationmaster’s whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.
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To disband the armies and destroy the forts, to diffuse love and brotherhood, and peace and justice in the place of war and strife, could tend only to the buidling up of character, the elevation of the soul, and the strength and well-being of the state.
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When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.
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The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.
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A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
