Joseph de Maistre Quotes
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.
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If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.
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I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.
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We don't give up a lot of yards, just too many big plays.
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God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe.
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
