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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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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Foreknowledge is power.
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Suicide is not a remedy.
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This bidding is just highlighting the value of assets, ... I increased my target for Disney to $27 in January. If it falls, it'll fall only modestly.
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Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such favor with the population of Jerusalem that people we drawn to the Lord.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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In TV films, it's nice to get out of town for six weeks or two months, whatever it is, do your thing, and you're out, ready for the next assignment.
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Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.
