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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So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.
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Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
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Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.
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I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
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Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
