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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I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.
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The past is getting clearer and clearer
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Seek after the good, and with much toil shall ye find it; the evil turns up of itself without your seeking it.
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I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.
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Out of difficulties grow miracles.
