Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
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Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
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You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
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Keep your head up and be patient.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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Back when the EPA proposed phasing out ozone-depleting CFCs, the chemical industry howled that refrigerators would fail in America's supermarkets, hospitals and schools.
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I always compartmentalized so many different things.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.
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Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!
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pp. 41-42
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Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our lives.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
