Thomas Pablo Croquet (Thomas Mars) Quotes
Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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I have a rich, full, textured life.
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I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.
