Moliere Quotes
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
Quotes to Explore
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When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'
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Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.
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I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
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The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
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Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.
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The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?
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We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
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Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature...
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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I wear sunglasses because of the glare of spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold.
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New York and LA are both great places to visit, but I wouldn't want to live in either of them now. I find New York extremely claustrophobic and dirty. LA is quite a nice place. But there's no hustle and bustle, no street life.
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There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.
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I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often.
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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
