Jeanne Calment Quotes
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson -
I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
Rafe Spall -
The Internet is an amazing development.
J. G. Ballard -
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
Pam Brown -
If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke -
The public has become my fairy godmother.
Eartha Kitt -
And rather than make the book unwieldy I have eschewed notes-reluctantly when some obscure passage or allusion seemed to ask for a timely word; with more equanimity when the temptation was to criticize or 'appreciate.' For the function of the anthologist includes criticizing in silence.
Arthur Quiller-Couch -
Most of the oxygen we breathe is made by ocean plankton. And when animals left the seas in which life arose, they took seawater with them, in their bodies - an internal environment crucial for cellular survival. We are, in a sense, soft vessels of seawater.
Carl Safina -
I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I've learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.
Lucy Dacus -
Some critics say I spent too much time on politics. I don't put much stock in the critics.
Antonio Villaraigosa
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Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing.
Belinda Stewart-Wilson -
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
Andres Segovia -
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.
Jascha Heifetz -
Well, I'm a big believer in 'never say never.'
Jim Parsons -
Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as a Jewish boy named Goldberg. Then again, I have never, nor would I ever, hide my Jewish identity.
Bill Goldberg -
Many academicians don't even own a television, much less watch one.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The reason I work with the same people, it's not just an accident.
Christopher Guest -
Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.
Angela of Foligno -
I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
Lana Del Rey -
The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.
George Bernard Shaw -
We all choke. You're not human if you haven't.
Curtis Strange -
I'm not afraid of anything.
Jeanne Calment