Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (Champfleury) Quotes
He is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.
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How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
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J. L. Austin; James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock eds. (1979) Philosophical Papers, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford.
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Our trouble is that we have ignored and thus feel insecure in the enormous spectrum of love which lies between rather formal friendship and genital sexuality, and thus are always afraid that once we overstep the bounds of formal friendship we must slide inevitably to the extreme of sexual promiscuity.
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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
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Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control.
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When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.
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All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'
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Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
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If Washington were a factory, it would manufacture spending.
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What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
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Look at Snowden or Julian Assange. In their own way, they are free without restrictions. They are dropped in a place because of political reasons.
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When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles.
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I studied philosophy at Columbia, then dropped out to do drama at the Lee Strasberg Institute.
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He is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way.
