Jules Romains Quotes
Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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'X Factor' was the best experience of my life to be part of a show watched by so many people.
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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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A veces estoy en un infierno y no me lamento. No encuentro de qué lamentarme.
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Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.
