Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Quotes to Explore
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.
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Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.
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Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
