Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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New York is a fantastic city.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.
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I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.
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As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.
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We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most intractable problems we face, which is gross wealth inequality. We can't fight climate change without dealing with inequality in our countries and between our countries.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.
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Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
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The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
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I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Heavy problems genocide desensitized environments Sometimes make it hard to sympathize, pardon
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The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments.
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Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
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Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.
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It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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Nous nous croyons purs tant que nous méprisons ce que nous ne désirons pas.
