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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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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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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Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis and later tradition; it fails, however, in the moment when this defense of national interests must take place in a province which is either absent from the general line of its ideological world and traditional development, or is for some reason rejected.
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I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll never catch me having a day on the sofa.
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I'm thinking about a few weeks in Montreal to work with a producer I met there.
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This work thing really has a specific purpose for me, which is to be an independent human being who doesn't rely on a guy or a family to be able to support myself. It's not about showing somebody that I'm successful. It's about having a wider breadth of option.
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By the work one knows the workman.
