Charles de Foucauld Quotes
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
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I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.
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A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge.
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The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.
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You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children, you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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In 'Who's Who,' my hobbies are listed as eating, sleeping, and voicing one's opinion. Not necessarily the right opinion, but it's mine.
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It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
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The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.
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Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
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The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything.
