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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I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.
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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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I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.
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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 make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.
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There's fence against all things except death.
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Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
