Paul Claudel Quotes
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
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Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.
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My intention is to get more involved in social projects so I can give people a message of hope.
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All teens are in trouble in one form or another.
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My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
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Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!