Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes
It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
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Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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We will not lose this election for lack of money.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
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I take his Theodore Geisel legacy very, very seriously. I know others may disagree because he's made such an impact on so many people that response to work becomes very personal, so people will have different points of view. But, at the core of this, I take the protection and the extension of his legacy very, very seriously. It's a very important part of my life.
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As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.
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Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
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It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.
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It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.
