Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.
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In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
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To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.
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I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
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I wanted to go to San Antonio. I told them I was coming. I had to tell them that I was changing my mind and staying with the Nets. It was a day later when I had to tell them, but when I got back to Jersey, when I started thinking about the process, I felt a little more comfortable staying home.
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A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'
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The fly of the coach.
