Paul Claudel Quotes
How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods
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Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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I like to discover new things.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
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I'm the third of five children.
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
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Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.
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How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods
