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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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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There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!
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Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
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The administration says the American people want tax cuts. Well, duh. The American people also want drive-through nickel beer night. The American people want to lose weight by eating ice cream. The American people love the Home Shopping Network because it's commercial-free.
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I tell em everybody else is my opposite. I put em on the game give em five percent.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
