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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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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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 learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this day. I should have continued longer if it hadn't been that I concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife, and so I cut out to hunt me one.
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I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
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We have to believe in the mercy and grace of God to trigger conversion rather than the other way around: that you're only going to get the mercy if you have a conversion. The economy of salvation doesn't work that way.
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My nature is feminist. How could you not be a feminist and be alive? The world is full of brilliant, interesting women.
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Digital is going to have five times the impact than the information era. Just because you led the first transition as a company or country, that doesn't mean you will lead in this one.
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To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.
