Saint Francis de Sales Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
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What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don't like such breaks. They'll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
