Maurice Druon Quotes
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
Maurice Druon
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
Jack Canfield
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
Oliver Ellsworth
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I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.
Adam DeVine
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
Edmund Morgan
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
Aaron Neville
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
Balthazar Getty
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Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
Kary Mullis
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Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.
Zach Wamp
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Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.
Gary Krist
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When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.
Gabriella Wilde
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What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.
Laura Dern
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I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.
Victoria Pendleton
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Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.
Natasha Leggero
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
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Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.
Tanit Phoenix
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It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.
Fantasia Barrino
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Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.
Abel Korzeniowski
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I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
Garrett Hedlund
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I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
Wendy Cope
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Languages like English, Spanish, and Chinese are healthy languages. They exist in spoken, written, and signed forms, and they're used by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. But most of the 6,000 or so of the world's languages aren't in such a healthy state.
David Crystal
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I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.
Hamza Yusuf
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The greater the pressure and expectation, the more I relish the opportunity.
David Droga
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Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
Maurice Druon
