Augustin-Jean Fresnel Quotes
It's not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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There is no way from us to God - not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa. The god who stood at the end of some human way - even of this way - would not be God.
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Through the fortunate effect of my frankness, I had the rarest and surest opportunity to know a man well, which is to study him at leisure in his private life and living, so to speak, with himself. For he share himself without reservation and made me feel as much at home in his house as in mine. I had almost no other abode than his own.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.
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My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.
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Monetary policy transmission encompasses the whole continuum of interest rates; of course, the central bank only determines the overnight policy rate.
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It's a different thing playing in a smaller venue where you can actually see people's faces and reactions. It's so much more intimate. You walk away with a more personal experience.
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Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.
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The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.
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I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
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It's not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.
