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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I've always said, 'I didn't have a Plan B in life.' I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It's all about desire and passion. At all costs.
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What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.
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I like to talk about very different topics. I like to jump around a lot because I don't want people to come see me and then for an hour I tell jokes about being a little person. I just don't want that to happen. I understand that it's part of me, that's the first thing that you notice and it's something that people are curious about.
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We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.
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It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.
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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.
