Jeanne Calment Quotes
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
Hans Hofmann
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
Forest Whitaker
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I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.
Webb Simpson
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Religion is induced insanity.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
Irvine Welsh
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The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
Samantha Power
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I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!
Camille Pissarro
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
Wallace Shawn
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
Eddie Trunk
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For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.
Abby Wambach
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I talk too much.
Vin Diesel
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Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
Damon Lindelof
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I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
Laura Fraser
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reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
Harper Lee
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Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
Quintilian
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Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
Simon Van Booy
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Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.
Alvah Bessie
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She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
Anne Bronte
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For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of various material studies, is as barren as the sky without the moon, or a heart without peace, or a nation without reference to law.
Sai Baba
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I'd like to go to the Moon.
Jeanne Calment