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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Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.
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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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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
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Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.
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I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.
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How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and concrete fell down, when actually they took with them thousands of human lives? That is the actual tragedy. But those towers were almost human for me. I was in love with them, and that's why I married them with a tight rope.
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When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
