Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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I've got good speed off the edge.
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No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.
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Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.
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You know, I've had my ups and downs.
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In some basic way, it is our imperfections and even our pain that draws others close to us.
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It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous. The danger also depends on the spiritual potency of the particular guru. Without sufficient potency, a few offensive or faithless disciples can lead to the guru's fall.
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I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.
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En toute chose il faut considérer la fin.
