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 no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.
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If you scratch below the glossy surface of many "enviable" marriages, often you'll find a disenchanted wife whose husband finds the landscape of her emotions as uninteresting as the moon's.
