Simone Veil Quotes
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
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What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.
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We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.
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To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
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I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.
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I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
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No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even Grimm's tales were written for adults. But it is true that ever since 'Harry Potter' there has been a renaissance in fantasy literature. J. K. Rowling opened the door again.
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
