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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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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I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.
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The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.
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Not everything is going to be handed to you just because you're talented with a big smile. Sometimes you just gotta get out and shoot jumpers for hours and hours and hours. That's something I didn't really get a grasp on until way later, waking up early and treating it like a job if you're serious about it. Get the freak up and, you know, work.
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I believe young people from working families should have access to debt-free education because I know from my own experience that a high-school degree is not always enough, and a higher education can change a life.
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'Run' is exciting, about family secrets, the mystery surrounding them and the outdoor sport of parkour. The story itself is full of intrigue and action, but the parkour takes the story to another level. It was an absolutely incredible experience, working with experts from all over the country.
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Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.
