Jeanne Calment Quotes
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I talk to the universe all the time.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.
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It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.
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The American people overwhelmingly oppose taxpayer funding of abortions, and it's no different in Arizona, where we have long-standing policy against subsidizing them with public dollars.
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European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.
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When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.
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Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.
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I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.
