Jean Giraudoux Quotes
Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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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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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
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Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
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The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years old - and trying to learn the monologues.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
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Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.
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I got my career start by first creating my own free, independent lifestyle in my own house out in the country. There I taught myself to make and later design furniture. I have continued to go my own way, always consciously needing to feel that I am moving forward.
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Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
