Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
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I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
Bai Ling
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
Hansika Motwani
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
Malcolm Gladwell
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
Karen O
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
Cameron Dallas
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
Patrick Rothfuss
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
Ram Dass
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
Harley Quinn Smith
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
Ed Rendell
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When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.
Vince Cable
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
Young Buck
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
Warwick Davis
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In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.
Vikram Patel
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
Iris Apfel
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Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people's quality of life.
Vikram Patel
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
Jack Charlton
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I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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There are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, and our leadership in the world. And I think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again.
Hillary Clinton
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I'm a fan of, like, the Coen Brothers, with the darker humor in it.
Jacob Zachar
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The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
Euripides
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What the color is, who the daddy be, who the mama is don’t mean nothin’. We family, carin’ for each other. Family make us strong in times of trouble. We all stick together, help each other out. That the real meanin’ of family. When you grow up, you take that family feelin’ with you.
Kathleen Grissom
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Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
