Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.
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I used to be a workout fiend and I was so unhappy because I wanted to eat what I wanted to eat. So now if I know I have to be in a bikini, I'll obviously watch what I eat for a week.
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I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
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English is not my first language.
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I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.
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The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.
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The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.
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People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.
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If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
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For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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He wrote love stories, a thing I have always kept free from, holding the belief that the well-known and popular sentiment is not properly matter for publication, but something to be privately handled by the alienist and the florist.
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We saw in San Jose these protesters starting to pelt stuff at Trump supporters. That's not what our democracy is about. That's not what you do. There's no room for violence. There's no place for shouting. There's no room for a politics that fails to at least listen to the other side - even if you vehemently disagree.
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I have the attention span of a rabbit on cocaine.
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The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
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Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.
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My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.
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I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.
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But I, for one, am not interested in a harmless truth or a harmless God. Give me a truth that works, and a God who makes me tremble.
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Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.
