Bernard Laporte Quotes
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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Jane Campion is a tough director.
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If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.
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I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.
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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
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It is easy to understand why conflict is so often highlighted: Writers of headlines or promotional copy want to catch attention and attract an audience. They are usually under time pressure, which lures them to established, conventionalized ways of expressing ideas in the absence of leisure to think up entirely new ones.
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I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.
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Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.
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Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again.
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Our success comes from stability.
