Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.
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However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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Style icons feel like they have to be so thin, and when I see somebody with a fuller figure like Scarlet Johansson, who is sexy and happy, I find it such a relief.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
