Alphonse Allais Quotes
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'
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I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.
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If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
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From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can create jobs in value added, in tax revenues for all Canadians.
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I usually build my collections on colors and on staples, so when you buy pieces, you are really adding to your wardrobe, and you're getting a new color palette to play with. The clothes are timeless and modern at the same time.
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When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.
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I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
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Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.
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And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.
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He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:At whatever time the deed took place-Macavity wasn't there.
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Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!
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The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.
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There shall be no love lost.
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My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power-not with ground forces.
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It always makes me laugh when people ask why anyone would want to do a sitcom in America. If it runs five years, you never have to work again.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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There is etiquette in golf, but it's not any harder to learn than what to do at a dinner party. Actually, it's probably easier. And these days, there are a lot more women out there than there used to be. It's not like when I was young. I was always the only girl on the range.
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I have no illusions of being an icon to young girls or anybody.
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There's truth in light. You can tell what elements a star is composed of and the temperature at which it burns by the light it gives off.
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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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Marche Funèbre composée pour les Funérailles d'un grand homme sourd.
