Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
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When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.
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Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
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The best thing that is happening to us is that we have a day off. We have kind of lost our game.
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I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?
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The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.
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Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.
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Sur les ailes du Temps la tristesse s'envole.
