Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
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You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
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I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
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If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.
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It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.
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Army intelligence said the French owners paid the Viet Cong a million piasters a year in protection money and paid the Saigon government three million piasters a year in taxes. The plantation billed the U.S. government $50 for each tea bush and $250 for each rubber tree damaged by combat operations. Just one more incongruity.
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I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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Passion satisfied has its innocence, almost as fragile as any other.
