Paul Claudel Quotes
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.
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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.
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We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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So high, so low, so many things to know.
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After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.
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A more just world is possible. In most of the global issues, and also in so many of the development issues I'm involved in in our region, the young people that I am working with are seizing the tools at their disposal and trying to use them well, for issues far larger than their immediate personal benefit and concerns. That's what gives me hope.
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.
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...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.
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That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.
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Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.
