Alphonse Allais Quotes
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
Mae West
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
Wendy Kopp
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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.
Tariq Ramadan
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
Ira Glass
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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.'
Gallant
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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.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
Jackie Chan
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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.
N. Murray Edwards
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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.
L'Wren Scott
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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.
Abbie Cornish
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I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
Barry Goldwater
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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.
Walther Bothe
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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.
Vanessa Williams
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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.
T. S. Eliot
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Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!
Jack Vance
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The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.
Jack Vance
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There shall be no love lost.
Ben Jonson
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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.
Curtis LeMay
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The list of things that are conventional today that I use every day that I thought would never make it is a very long list.
Lloyd Blankfein
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It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.
Christopher Lambert
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Look, I like to fantasize that there's more to reality than what we have here, and that's why, from a young age, I just loved Philip K. Dick's books.
Don Coscarelli
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My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow. Model yourselves after them, not after celebrities whose standards are not the Lord's standards and whose values may not reflect an eternal perspective. Look to your mother.
M. Russell Ballard
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Marche Funèbre composée pour les Funérailles d'un grand homme sourd.
Alphonse Allais