Jeanne Calment Quotes
Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
Jeanne Calment
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
Sam Heughan
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
Fantasia Barrino
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
Wayne Huizenga
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
A. Philip Randolph
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
Kara Swisher
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
Walter Kirn
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
Harold Nicolson
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
Victoria Pendleton
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
Irina Shayk
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
Washed Out
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
Abraham Maslow
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
Hampton Sides
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
Hans Jonas
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
Hans Blix
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
Barbara Amiel
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Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too.
Walt Mossberg
