Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
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I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
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You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
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The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.
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I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
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You can never overlook a guy.
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The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
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I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.
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If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.
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An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. … A person’s right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.
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Catastrophe and creation are twins.
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Science focuses on the study of the natural world. It seeks to describe what exists. Focusing on problem finding, it studies and describes problems in its various domains. The humanities focus on understanding and discussing the human experience. In design, we focus on finding solutions and creating things and systems of value that do not yet exist. The methods of science include controlled experiments, classification, pattern recognition, analysis, and deduction. In the humanities we apply analogy, metaphor, criticism, and (e)valuation. In design we devise alternatives, form patterns, synthesize, use conjecture, and model solutions.
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The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
