Luc de Clapiers Quotes
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in it for the money, and the more concerned a doctor seems to be about making money the more suspicious people become about the care being provided.
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I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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I never get used to the response that people have toward me.
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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
