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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Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.
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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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I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.
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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
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To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, ‘Remember your history.’
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
