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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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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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Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools.
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One of our canvassers was walking down a driveway last night when he came upon two bears, between a year or two weighing 150 to 180 pounds
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I don't look like a chorus girl.
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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.
