Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I'm evangelical.
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When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.
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I frequently say that I never share blame, I never share credit, and I never share desserts!
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I anticipated witnessing in my lifetime the disappearance of our species. But the Gods have been against me.
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Father was very sympathetic, and if the hero of a romance was good or to be pitied, his eyes would fill with tears until he could not see.
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My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
