Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
Qui serait assez insensé pour mourir sans avoir fait au moins le tour de sa prison?
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.
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There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
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Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
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At least I had that, one guy understood me.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.
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He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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What is happening here?Something is going onThat's not quite clear.Somebody turn on the light,We're gonna have a party.It's starting tonight.Oh, what a feeling!When we're dancing on the ceiling.
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Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.
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While it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
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Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not something you need to get, it's something you have already if you don't disturb it.
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At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.
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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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Don't be scared to embrace the way that it hurts just to grow. You'll look back and your heart will thank you for not standing still when what you needed the most was to move forward.
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I represent the views and the values of the people of the district.
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Qui serait assez insensé pour mourir sans avoir fait au moins le tour de sa prison?
