Ernest Dimnet Quotes
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
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Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'
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Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.
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There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
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Nothing is yet in its true form.
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How we live our lives in the Western world has impacts on the rest of the world.
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Life is full of challenges and surprises.
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Goals are what count for me. It's not about a battle with defenders. Fighting hard, giving everything and working hard on the field you have to combine with the goals you score. It doesn't matter if defenders want to battle with me or not; I will just be trying to do my job as well as I possibly can.
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Adopting this lifestyle and opting to exercise has helped me a lot in life.
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I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home.
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If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
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My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.
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The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
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French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
