Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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I would read all day if I could.
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I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
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People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.
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I always want to improve.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.
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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Dijkstra probably hates me.
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Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
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I remember the day I first heard what Timbaland and Aaliyah did - that intersection of her pretty voice and his weird, resonant production. I remember where I was and what I was doing. It was a major situation. We're trying to continue that legacy.
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It's amazing what's been done already on a shoestring budget...
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We are also urgently working with industry to identify how key routes can be re-established by other airlines as soon as possible.
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I have begun to see that even my father's harshness was a kind of love. An imperfect love, to be sure, but love nonetheless. He pushed me because he loved me, because he wanted no man to ever look down at his offspring. Now with time, rather than bitterness I feel blessing.… My initial fury has slowly given way to forgiveness.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
