Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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It's much easier to work with an unknown.
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Who you know, 10 albums later, get better than he's ever been before? It's hard. To come from all this huge success like a 'What's Love,' and a 'Lean Back,' then take it back to the street with 'The Darkside.'
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Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
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I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.
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And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
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I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.
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Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
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For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.
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I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now.
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For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
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I have very little regard for consensus if it blinds you to the truth.
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...nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it.
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The flower of olden sanctities.
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Life is so difficult to catch.
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If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
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I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very contested Cartesian illusion of reliability). Everything reaches us filtered through culture.
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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
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Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras,De juger les gens sur la mine.
