Arnaud Desjardins Quotes
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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Keys," she repeated, and slowly stepped back. "What do you mean, keys?" "Car keys. As in, give them up. Now." Shane had that look -- hard, and no bullshit. "We don't have time for your drama, Monica. Nobody does.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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The appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
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How can I progress on the Way thanks to every day difficulties.
