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.
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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.
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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.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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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.
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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.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
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My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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I'm a '90s baby.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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I was possessed by London.
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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.
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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.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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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.
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You've always got to think about having some fixed income in your portfolio as well as equities.
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Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona de la mia donna disiosamente... che lo 'ntelletto sovr'esse disvia.
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You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.
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As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.
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In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
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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.
