Adrienne Monnier Quotes
German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
Adrienne Monnier
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
Naguib Mahfouz
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
Adam Peaty
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
Patrick Macnee
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
Gary Ackerman
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. Murray Edwards
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The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this – mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.
Tanya Tucker
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
Washed Out
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A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.
Jan Koum
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Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
Mark Wahlberg
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David Ortiz is almost like a superhero. The type of love that he gives and everything, the positivity that's around him - a lot of people admire him and respect him.
Jaylen Brown
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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
Carlo Goldoni
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I've had people appear in my life that have helped me. I had more fun. I approached it thinking how would Jack Nicholson, "How would he do it?" So that's really what I did was I created this Gremlin character. So now people come up and they say 'Oh The Exorcist!'.. and I'm like "Did you see Repossessed?" They say either no or yes or whatever, and I say look at this, have a laugh, and then go back and look at a masterpiece .
Linda Blair
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German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
Adrienne Monnier