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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I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
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The DVR thing has rocked my world. Being on the road, I used to not keep up with any shows. Now I got a DVR, so I'm watching everything: 'CSI: Miami,' my favorites 'Criminal Minds' and 'The Mentalist.' I like some of the HBO stuff, 'Entourage' and 'Eastbound & Down.' My wife got me into the 'Grey's Anatomy' deal, so I'm watching that.
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We're playing small clubs and doing it all in a van. I have management, and they've done a good job of getting our tour plan together, but we're still having to go and rent the vehicles and all the little things you need to do. You really have to watch your budget.
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I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
