Paul Claudel Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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There always have been funny women.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
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When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
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Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.
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Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.
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[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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The sparrow still falls.
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With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.
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You have an advantage in life when you start where others talk first.
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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
