Georges Courteline Quotes
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.
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When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.
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The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are cheering you, a lot of adrenaline goes right through you.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'
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Youth is beautiful.
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Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
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I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.
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Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.
