Paul Claudel Quotes
It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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The best philanthropy is anonymous charity. When you’re doing it for the right reasons, and not to tell everyone how nice you are. That’s self-aggrandizement. That’s also OK: if you want credit, that’s OK. But the higher giving is anonymous giving.
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A falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.
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It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.
