Anna Gavalda Quotes
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
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Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
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The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.
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Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
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You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
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If warming were held to a minimum, the team estimated that between 22 and 31 percent of the species would be “committed to extinction” by 2050. If warming were to reach what was at that point considered a likely maximum—a figure that now looks too low—by the middle of this century, between 38 and 52 percent of the species would be fated to disappear.
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I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say, 'I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm splitting my ticket for you.' They're more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for.
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What keeps people from living together is their stupidity, not their differences.
