Alphonse Daudet Quotes
Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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All my books are optimistic!
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.
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Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.
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There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.
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I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
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I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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The central message is still that, as Keynes argued, fiscal policy is the answer to liquidity traps, financial or political. The arguments against fiscal policy in Japan, so far as I understand them are intellectually fallacious; they would receive failing grades in an undergraduate macro exam.
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Every person on the earth today lived at one time in heavenly realms. We walked with our Heavenly Father. We knew Him. We heard His voice. We loved Him.
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Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
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Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.
