Benoit Lecomte Quotes
After I finished the Atlantic swim I said "never again," but it didn't take long for me to change my mind. I like to push my limits. I want to raise money for cancer research and to inspire others to follow their dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo).
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A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.
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Continue, continue, there is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.
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To me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can't always be with in this life. And being with them forever.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
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After I finished the Atlantic swim I said "never again," but it didn't take long for me to change my mind. I like to push my limits. I want to raise money for cancer research and to inspire others to follow their dreams.
