Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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What's my favourite food? One you order out.
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Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.
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I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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Die nächste Flut verwischt den Weg im Watt, und alles wird auf allen Seiten gleich; die kleine Insel draußen aber hat die Augen zu; verwirrend kreist der Deichum ihre Wohner, die in einem Schlaf geboren werden, drin sie viele Welten verwechseln schweigend, denn sie reden selten, und jeder Satz ist wie ein Epitaph
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You can learn investing by reading books.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."
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Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
