Jean Giraudoux Quotes
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
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I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.
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I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.
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As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action.
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Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.
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If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.
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The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected.
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The more mature we are, the more receptive we are.
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Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
