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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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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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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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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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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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
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On stage, I'm always nervous, but there is so much adrenalin, too. It's strange because I have to turn my back on the audience, and my audience is the orchestra. I communicate my energy to them, and they communicate it to the audience behind me!
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The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don't want to live in regret.
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When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.
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I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.
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I want to show people that I am that good friend and the person that a lot of people actually come to confide in or even, just, to be around that good energy, because that's what I'm all about.
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The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.
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I design for the working girl.
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Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya.
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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.
