Raymond Aron Quotes
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I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I want to be a major force.
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Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.
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If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
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I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'
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Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
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I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.
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So many times, genuine health workers and genuine NGO folks are really just trying to help other humans in whatever capacity they can. But they are perceived as being CIA, and therefore, it blocks their effectiveness.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.
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For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.
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It's rare to meet somebody who's secure with herself, confident in who they are, and doesn't have anything to apologize for.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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I can't believe it hasn't happened yet. It's a shame and it's disappointing. I don't know what the problem is.
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For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.
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I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.
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Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.
