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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The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.
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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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I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.
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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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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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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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To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
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Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.
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All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.
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I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.
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I hate it when people insist on wrangling with you about something, then try to stop as soon as they see the arguments are no longer going all their way.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
