Georges Courteline Quotes
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.
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Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.
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Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
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I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.
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I have changed my mind about the testability and logical status of the theory of natural selection; and I am glad to have an opportunity to make a recantation.
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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
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I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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I knew police officers have a very difficult job. They have to make split second decisions that will impact not only the communities they serve but their families, their own personal lives.
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My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.
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Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.
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A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.
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The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.Any fool can do it;There ain't nothing to it.Nobody knows how we got toThe top of the hill.But since we're on our way down,We might as well enjoy the ride.
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To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.
