Violette Leduc Quotes
To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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I write novels and other things.
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Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.
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I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.
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Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.
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Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.
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The only way to win tournaments is with the short game. Over half your shots out here are within 30 or 40 yards. Ballstriking is where I'm trying to improve, yes, but more to eliminate big numbers than make birdies.
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To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.
