Francois Mauriac Quotes
Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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There is no truly global justice.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
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I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
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And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.
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The mudslinging has begun.
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What life have you, if you have not life together? There is not life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of GOD.
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Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.
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Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
