Noel-Antoine Pluche Quotes
It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
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People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.
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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
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I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.
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Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.
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I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.
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It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.
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It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.
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Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
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Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.
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Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive to.' But then there are songs where you can actually hear it as a movie.
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It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.
