Joseph Joubert Quotes
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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I started out doing musicals.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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I'm very lucky.
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My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!
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Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
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I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.
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Heard this song and i couldn’t help myself to add a beat to it.
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When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behaviour is a result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth and therefore to events for which he cannot be held responsible by any stretch of imagination.
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He that hath no musical instruction is a child in Music; he that hath no letters is a child in Learning; he that is untaught is a child in Life. (105).
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I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
