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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This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
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There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
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Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there's more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.
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People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.
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Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
