Edouard Rene de Laboulaye Quotes
Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.
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The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.
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Me.
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Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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It's silly and demeaning to rate teachers using only the poorly defined 'learning gains' on the FCAT.
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Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.
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When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them to the documents of the II Vatican Council, I cannot help being bewildered. For what was condemned as heresy in 1906 was proclaimed as what is and should be from now on the doctrine and method of the Church. In other words, the modernists of 1906 were, somewhat, precursors to me. My masters were part of them. My parents taught me Modernism. How could Saint Pius X reject those that now seem to be my precursors?
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Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.
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I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people.
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Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.
