Jules Verne Quotes
Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
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Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.
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I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.
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When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.
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She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man may escape this death by becoming the hangman, a woman by marrying the hangman. But at the present time there is no hangman; thus there is no escape. There is only a death, indefinitely postponed. This is not fantasy, it is history.
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I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.
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People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.
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We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.
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To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
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The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.
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I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.
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In South Korea, which is a much less conservative environment, politicians do not take their wives around with them as much as their American counterparts do. Showing pride in your wife is thought of as juvenile bad form. There's a special pejorative for people who do it.
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If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.
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Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.
