Paul Claudel Quotes
The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.
Paul Claudel
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
T. J. Miller
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
Mara Liasson
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
Ferdinand Marcos
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
Nancy Grace
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
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Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.
Garrison Keillor
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Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.
Candace Bushnell
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
Adam Carolla
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
Quincy Jones
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Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
Dale Carnegie
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But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor Of Earth, and up to Heav'n's unopening Door You gaze To-day, while You are You - how then To-morrow, You when shall be You no more?
Omar Khayyam
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If you tell a kid not to run to a water slide, he/she will walk for 2 steps, then start running again.
Brian Regan
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Georges Bernanos
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Concerning the blunders which had been made in our foreign policy public opinion is, as a rule, first enlightened when it is in a position to look back upon the history of a generation, and the Achivi qui plectuntur are not always immediately contemporary with the mistaken actions.'
Otto von Bismarck
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The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.
Paul Claudel
