Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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People talk about the exciting growth prospects in Brazil, China and India, but they forget that the US is not as developed as Western Europe. Plus, 66 million users in India will not have a huge ARPU, but it would be a lot of money in the US.
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...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.
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If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies. How very different our ideals of beauty would be.
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Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
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Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
