Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
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I'm learning every day.
Laura Harrier
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
Jack Palance
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The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
Felix Adler
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone
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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.
Randy Lerner
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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!
Valerie Bertinelli
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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.
Oliver Herford
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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
Edgar Lee Masters
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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.
Audrey Hepburn
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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.
Akio Morita
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I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.
Paula Fox
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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.
Emily Ratajkowski
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Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.
William Wordsworth
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I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
Jack Nicklaus
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As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.
Tom Hanks
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During 'Manchurian Candidate' - that role originated with Laurence Harvey, and I studied everything he did. I would never be able to reproduce that performance, but I got a lot of ideas from watching it.
Liev Schreiber
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle