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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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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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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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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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I'm sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.
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The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.
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We need a backbone, not a wishbone.
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I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
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Younger generations, they ask more questions, like on a recipe. But they ask them online. If my staff doesn't know how to answer it, I will answer.
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The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated.
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Marche Funèbre composée pour les Funérailles d'un grand homme sourd.
