Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.
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I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
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You do something you're really quite proud of, and the public doesn't like it. Then you do something that perhaps you're not at all happy with and the public loves it. And that's the moment of truth, because it's the audience that's the final judge.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
