Camille Flammarion (Nicolas Camille Flammarion) Quotes
There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.
Camille Flammarion
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
Aaron Johnson
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I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'
Samuel L. Jackson
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
Gary Lucas
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Walter Lippmann
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Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
Carice van Houten
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
Kate Winslet
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I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
P. T. Barnum
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
Jackie Chan
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.
Taylor Momsen
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At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.
Samantha Fox
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
Iris Murdoch
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I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
Rachel Kushner
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Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
Sam Richards
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The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.
Ramez Naam