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.Jean Giraudoux
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Barbara McClintock -
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.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
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.
Umberto Eco -
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.
Rachel Sklar -
I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
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.
Fran Lebowitz
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham -
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
Barbara Amiel -
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.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
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.
Nancy Reagan -
Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
Rand Paul -
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.
Quintilian
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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.
Gavin Bryars -
Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
Campbell Scott -
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
Frances McDormand -
As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
Action Bronson -
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
Caleb Cushing -
I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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I'd behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk's closet.
Jenny Zhang -
History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.
Ken Burns -
Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership".
Victoria Secunda -
We need to incentivize states across our country to spend on higher education and ensure that we go back to allowing people to go to college tuition-free.
Pramila Jayapal -
Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
Jean Giraudoux