Christophe Lemaitre Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
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I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.
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Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
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I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'
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I will be very involved in Ukraine.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
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There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more.
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they just "are" - they exist quite independently of us. The most that man can do is become aware, in a moment of clarity, that they are there, and take cognizance of them.
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Last Halloween a kid tried to rip my face off. He thought it was a mask. Now it's different when I open the door the kids hand me candy.
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
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Aviators live by hours, not by days.
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!
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I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds.
