Leo Tolstoy Quotes
History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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Ricky: You are the strangest man alive.
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I moved to Paris around 1995 or 1996; my first collection on the runway was in 1997.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox... I don't like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
