Jean Racine Quotes
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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A true man hates no one.
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When did you last have fun being dignified?
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Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
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I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
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I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.
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I'm a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on the walls, and I would change what I was wearing, and I would have a playlist, and it all kind of corresponded and matched, and I would change my handwriting in the journals.
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The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.
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Some people get a kick out of Taylor Hicks being their landlord.
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A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.
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My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.
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I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It's only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they're just economic figures.
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My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Virginia, to Kentucky about 1781 or 1782, where a year or two later he was killed by the Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.
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No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest.
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I'm inspired by people who are unapologetically themselves, from Bill Cosby to Fahim Anwar. Just funny people.
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My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens.
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We are so many different people in one lifetime.
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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
