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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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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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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The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.
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No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!
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I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
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I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
