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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J'aime à réver, mais ne veux pasQu'à coups d'épingle on me réveille.
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I don't really have a lot of interns, although I do now use Research Assistants to help me compile indexes when that is necessary.
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Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.
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'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
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I had a whistle-stop tour of Havana in a horse and carriage and couldn't stop taking photographs of the decaying yet enchanting buildings and people.
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I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.
