Saint Francis de Sales Quotes
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Quotes to Explore
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Women love a self-confident bald man.
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I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.
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I think Nancy Reagan felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.
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Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
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I like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
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Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
