Michel de Montaigne Quotes
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
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If there's beer flying at us, it's all good, brother. We started playing tiny redneck bars up in northern Canada where there's tons of beer flying and wire cage protecting the band and all sorts of stuff. So we're down with the party.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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We have nothing in our account but zeroes! And yet, because of His great love, God forgave us our astronomical debt.
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It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.