Francois Nars Quotes
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to a French company named Veolia - one of a handful of corporate giants now scrambling to take over city water systems around the planet, especially in the often polluted and water-short developing world.
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To not run a venture into the ground, entrepreneurs need to learn what it takes to succeed.
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I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!
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You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have.
