Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
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All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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People say I'm good at standup. I don't even think I'm that great at standup. I just hit hard. I don't think I'm super technical or anything like that. I got a couple knockouts. I think I just hit hard more than anything.
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Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.
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Egalitarian policies are the best way to unite and empower people, and are also a necessary counterweight to the sometimes detrimental influence of market forces.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
