Jean Rostand Quotes
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
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I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.
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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.
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I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.
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I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited;I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.
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When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.
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The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)
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We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
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You are a good friend and we welcome you.
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It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
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When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.
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When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
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I want to marry and have kids. The things we all want.
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I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.
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All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
