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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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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Everybody thinks that I did this and I did that, but I just went along with the times.
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When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are. We receive the space in which to bloom. This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.
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I want to write a new story in Europe, to make a new history. I want to come to win the championship and play again in the Champions League.
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Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.
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True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
