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 expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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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 love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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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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On a piece of paper, write down the thing that is stressing you, the obstacle that is in your way. Then put it in a box and just leave it there. At the end of about a week, dispose of it - throw it in the trash or bury it - some sort of ritualistic act of releasing it.
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Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.
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I used to think that in order to be lean, I had to under-eat.
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I don't set out to do something weird, but if you see something a certain way and it's a little left of center, and you can realize it, that's a real thrill.
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Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
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I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.
