Luc de Clapiers Quotes
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.
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Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light.
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The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
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I feel like the more we speak for and support others, the less we'll have to worry about speaking for and supporting ourselves.
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I am not the most objective viewer of my own work. So I have different thoughts about my work.
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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
