Luc de Clapiers Quotes
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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Freediving is by far and away the toughest sport mentally. You are underwater for up to seven minutes, and a lot of thoughts go through your brain, and you need to be completely calm and relaxed. In any other sport, you use increased adrenalin, but in freediving, you have to drop the heart rate down to 20 beats per minute.
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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
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Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.
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Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
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Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
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Siempre busco alguna luz y siempre en la noche y no alumbrado por ninguna luz.
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Routes rate me, not the other way around.
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Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.
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Michael Jordan on the court is a completely different guy. If the play requires him to leap out all the way and grab the ball, that's what he'll do. He may be a completely shy, withdrawn sort of person [off the court].
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The best advice I got really had nothing to do with singing; it came from my brother, who always told me to stick to my guns and to believe in myself. I think Duane saw my talents and believed in me long before I ever did, and that meant the world to me.
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I still think Barty must be a crook
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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
