Jean Racine Quotes
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
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I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better than chocolate ice cream.
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I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.
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I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
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I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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If someone thinks, 'I'll spend the off season working on my fitness and I'll come back a better cricketer,' I don't think that's enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.
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It doesn't matter if you're sad or hung-over or lazy or tired - a workout will get your endorphins pumping, and you'll feel like a new person almost instantly.
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He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.
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There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.
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I go forth to seek - To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.
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It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
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When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head.
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I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.
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The safety of my opponent was critical to me.
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I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
