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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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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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
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We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.
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I'm sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it's certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.
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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
