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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I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.
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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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Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.
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With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.
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Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.
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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
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For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
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Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.
