Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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I grew up watching 'Grease,' and 'Grease 2.' I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. I'd love the challenge now.
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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
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How can German music not be represented by an article?
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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I love to play with Tony and Bill anytime, anywhere.
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When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don't think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that.
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Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top. ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.
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Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.
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Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
