Jean Paul Quotes
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Quotes to Explore
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.
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I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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All morning, I did nothing but repeat: 'Man is an abyss, man is an abyss.' - I could not, alas, find anything better.
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The French have a saying: 'Time will not consecrate that in which she has been ignored.' Bear this admonition ever in mind for it is deeply true. And so, while I say we will neither hasten nor delay, let us not delay. All of which is summed up in the proverbs :
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
