Alphonse Daudet Quotes
Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.
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Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.
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Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.
