Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
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My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of my life.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Yep, I jumped from college to the ABL, just in time for the league to go under.
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By the work one knows the workman.
