Charles Nodier Quotes
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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I can't change the way I am … but if I offended you, good. Cause I still don't give a fuck.
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When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history.
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All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.
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That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.
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Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.
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In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn't build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.
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To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.
