Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I loved my Communications class. The toughest one I had was Oceanography only because I didn't have too much interest in the oceans.
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No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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Hochschild’s biggest mistake, though, was one made by almost every popularized housework study: not adequately measuring men’s contribution to work around the home. For example, if mom drives the children to daycare, it’s called housework; if dad drives the family to grandma’s, it isn’t called housework.
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So dazzling was the spread of constellations that it had the impact of a vision, of some hidden insight. I drove home saying to myself: The dead, too, are like this, blazing within us - invisibly.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
