Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
Je vais t'entretenir de moindres aventures,Te tracer en ces vers de légères peintures;Et si de t'agréer je n'emporte le prix,J'aurai du moins d'honneur de l'avoir entrepris.
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
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Be obscure clearly.
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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I'm going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip.
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My fans can see me grow up.
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I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
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Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
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The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
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I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
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While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.
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I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life.
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I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
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Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
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Nothing comes easy, but as long as you're breathing, you're always one breath away from making your dreams a reality. Make every breath count.
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Show business got really tainted for me.
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'I like sleeping. (after a pause) You were conceived in this bed.'
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We discussed ourselves a lot. But although we were women…we struggled to understand what a woman was. Our every move or thought or conversation or dream, once analyzed in depth, seemed not to belong to us. And this excavation seemed to exasperate those who were weaker, who couldn’t tolerate such an excess of self-reflection and believed that to embark on the road of freedom it was simply enough to cut off men. These were unstable times, arcing in waves. Many of us feared a return to the flat calm and stayed on the crest, holding on to extreme formulations and looking down with fear and rage.
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Je vais t'entretenir de moindres aventures,Te tracer en ces vers de légères peintures;Et si de t'agréer je n'emporte le prix,J'aurai du moins d'honneur de l'avoir entrepris.
