Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
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The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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I'm learning every day.
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
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The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams. At the same time, of course, there's a balance between growing long-term and getting the instant results we all crave as fans.
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I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about with a bull's-eye lanternFrom door to door on the square
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I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II, I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.
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We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM.
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I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.
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What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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I love it right now. I love being retired. I think I retired at a perfect time in my career. Now I get an opportunity to spend time with my wife and kids and get to be very supportive of them. My son is playing football right now. My daughter is in gymnastics. Both are competing at a high level. So it came at the right time.
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Keep your freedom, keep your immortality, but somewhere along the line I hope you figure out what you're living forever for. What noble purpose you mean to achieve. Because you're no good to anyone here, not even yourselves.
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Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.
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I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
