Jean Racine Quotes
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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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I like looking wet, sweaty, dewy, fresh.
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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
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My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
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I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.
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So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
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I am still quick at 250 to 260 lbs and I am smarter.
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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
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The picture of me as a child is that I was always with a ball - that's why I was so skinny: I would miss dinner. Mum would have to leave me some food in the microwave.
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All things are at odds when God lets a thinker loose on this planet.
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A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.
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You must remember, once more, that expectations are the blocks with which you build your reality. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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I'm not taking things quite so seriously as before. Especially myself.
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Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
