Melanie Thierry Quotes
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All religions have been made by men.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
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As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.
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I'm an Isabel Marant woman: I love her style so much.
