Jean Giraudoux Quotes
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
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I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.
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Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law's flat.
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If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.
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Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.
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I believe in being an innovator.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?
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Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.
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There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see.
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I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.
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How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a transracial family. And we're not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood!
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He had more on his mind than his mind could hold.
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.
