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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The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
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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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When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
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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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Hulk fans are impossible to please.
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As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
