Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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I loved the world of imagination.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been dating a while. We're in a committed relationship, and I'm really happy in my relationship. I'm a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
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Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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As one former prisoner put it in speaking to his fellow citizens, 'Politics is your job. It’s not only for the politicians.' And we have an expression in the United States that the most important office in a democracy is the office of citizen - not President, not Speaker, but citizen.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.
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I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.
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I think the French and the Japanese are both obsessed by seasons, small producers, freshness.
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One returns to the place one came from.
