Georges Cuvier Quotes
The natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to consist of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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We get to a point where we're like, you know what, one day we're just not gonna be here anymore, so I'm going to enjoy every second of it.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
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Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
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I always like to tell a story.
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There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.
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I went to Coachella once, and it was only to go see Leonard Cohen. I got in the car and sat through all the crazy traffic in L.A. to get there - instead of a two hour drive, it takes, like, six hours. Then I watched his set and turned around and left. I just so wanted to see him perform in the desert.
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We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.
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Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
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My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
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Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it's costing the country a fortune.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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My dad's an actor, and my mum's a casting director and a writer.
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How do you 'invest in the future'? By borrowing $188 million every hour. That's what the Government of the United States is doing. It's spending one-fifth of a billion dollars it doesn't have every hour of every day of every week - all for your future!
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The natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to consist of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.
