Francois Mitterrand Quotes
All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.
Francois Mitterrand
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
Gary Carr
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
Walter Bagehot
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
A. J. Liebling
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
Curtis Mayfield
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
Alan Furst
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
Gary Weiss
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'Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,' said the Rat. 'And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or me. I've never been there, and I'm never going, nor you either, if you've got any sense at all.
Kenneth Grahame
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You could conceive spirituality as the study of the immeasurable, of the qualitative. But that's very different from the way we typically use the word. A spiritual person, in the popular conception, is somebody who's kind of aloof from the world, introspective, meditating, communing with non-material beings. That's the spiritual realm, and we elevate it above the material realm. What's more worthy, what's more admirable? Who's the one who has done this hard work on the self, and has done a lot of "practice"? That's the spiritual person.
Charles Eisenstein
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All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.
Francois Mitterrand
