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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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 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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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 more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.
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By 2050 there will be almost 2.5 times as many people here as in 1960: 420 million. The share of the population of European descent will be a minority as it is today in California, Texas and New Mexico. And that minority will be aging, shrinking and dying. There will be as many Hispanics here, 102 million, as there are Mexicans today in Mexico...
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When I'm asked where I want to be in five or 10 years time, I say I just want to be alive and healthy.
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When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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People reacted to how I looked, and that was certainly a power to have as a young girl, but not one that you really understand.
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I have no plans, and no plans to plan.
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We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.
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Je plie, et ne romps pas.
