Jeanne Calment Quotes
I had to wait 110 years to become famous... I intend to enjoy it as long as possible.
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
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I've done so much travelling in the past few years, and when you travel, you realise that we do actually have a cool, clean look in Scandinavia - it's not just Denmark - which I think brings peace if you have it in your home.
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Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right.
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I had to wait 110 years to become famous... I intend to enjoy it as long as possible.
