Edgar Quinet Quotes
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.
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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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I believe I've accomplished my goals of trying to get better every year, and a little bit of that, a little bit of luck, a little bit of everything just falls in place, and you end up on top.
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By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.
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I mean, you can?t spot a guy like that a second around this track with only a few laps to go. That was my own fault.
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I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
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I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in love with sentences that you then have to cut. I actually find that really difficult to do; there's something so demoralizing about looking at a pile of not very great sentences. As I ease into writing every morning, I tweak a sentence and then tweak a paragraph.
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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
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The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
