Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.
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I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.
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Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.
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I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
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Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.
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Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'
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I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.
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We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.
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You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
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The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.
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There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.
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Life is just a candle, and a dream must give it flame... - The Fountain of Lamneth (1975)
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We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
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The scans also revealed that during flashbacks, our subjects’ brains lit up only on the right side.
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I get a guest on the air, and they're weird or strange, and I help them tell their story. I don't laugh at them. I listen.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
