Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.
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To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
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We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.
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Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
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But when mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
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...Meanwhile in the USA paranoid Republicans have accused Barack Obama of being a ruthless despot hatching conspiracies to destroy the foundations of American society – yet in eight years of his presidency he barely managed to pass a minor health-care reform.
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Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?
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Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
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The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.
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The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.
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Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.
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Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.
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Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.
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As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.