Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
Quotes to Explore
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.
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If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.
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I am the oldest of seven. Do my siblings think I'm super cool? I wish they thought I was super cool!
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I can't stand the idea of missing something. I've got to know what's going on - it's like an animal instinct with me.
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I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.
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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
