Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
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The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
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I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres and R&B music and hip-hop, mixing them all together.
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If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.
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Donald Trump has been planting seeds for over a year, warning supporters not to trust the government, the polls or the media, because it's all rigged, he says.
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Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn't as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together.
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We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
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One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn't end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way we think, and it will affect the way our children see the world.
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Yes, I always imagined living in other places.
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Out of difficulties grow miracles.
