Jean-Claude Duvalier Quotes
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late '70s they took one look at me and said, 'Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,' and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind.
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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
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I always liked Darth Vader. I remember, when I was a kid, I went to the toy store for the Darth Vader pencil case. I took that to school for years.
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It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.
