Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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To me, America is just another market.
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I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.
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If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.
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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don't regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.
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Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
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Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.
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The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
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It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.
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I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.
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By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.
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I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.
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When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
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If there's one perk, it's being the quarterback of America's team and being able to make a difference off the field.
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The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.
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The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
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Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.
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Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
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The part of the game that fans will soon miss: the argument between manager and umpire! There was something special about watching a manger and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.
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Je plie, et ne romps pas.
