Francois Lelord Quotes
Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.
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It's not unlike what happened in tech, ... The better they do, the more people buy. What happens is the price gets really high and the compensation you get for taking on the extra risk goes down.
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If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all.
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The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.
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Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
