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 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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There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.
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My grandfather was terminally ill, and any interaction with him felt so incomplete. It seemed impossible to say or do anything that was enough. And, of course, that was true. Nothing could have been enough.
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Getting enough sleep makes us better family members, friends, lovers, drivers, writers, cooks, and pretty much everything else that is of importance in our lives.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
