Louis Aragon Quotes
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
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I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.
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To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
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Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.
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Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
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If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.
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Every human mind you've ever looked at … is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions.
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The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.
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Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don’t know it.
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Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.
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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
