Elsa Triolet Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
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I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.
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The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.
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When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.
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Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.
