Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
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I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
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A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.
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I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.
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I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
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I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.
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It Nobel Peace Prize is a great recognition and honour for millions of children in the world. I hope many more people will join the fight against child slavery. This isn't just about India. It's a global phenomenon. We'll work for this globally. I've been working in 147 countries and my responsibility is with all the world's children.
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less … than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.
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Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
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Wagon loads of colorful gemstones arrived from all parts of Asia and Europe. Its story is one of great passion and sorrow. Shah Jahan built it as a tomb for his beloved Mumtaz Mahal, whose beauty inspired many royal poets. He chose to express his grief through architecture. It is a testament to his undying love.
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Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.
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I think because of these big issues of life and death that maybe sex feels like a crass question. But for Christ sake, this is a book that is so interested in an elemental human condition. And one of the ideas about surrender is an erotic surrender, too. These folks are surrendered by destiny; they surrender to each other in certain moments, but there is a lot of erotic surrender.
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Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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Il connaît l’univers, et ne se connaît pas.
