Jean Giraudoux Quotes
Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.
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I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
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The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.
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Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.
