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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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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...girls who had read Wittgenstein as high school baby-sitters were rejected because the school’s quota of abnormally intelligent students had already been filled that year.
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I constantly look like a miserable bitch.
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The pennycandystore beyond the Elis where I firstfell in lovewith unreality
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If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree.
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I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.
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You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.
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Sur les ailes du Temps la tristesse s'envole.
