Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
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I like Public School and En Noir.
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I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
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If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
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I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
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Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
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We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.
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And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.
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Education is the key. If you are educated, nothing can defeat you.
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Peu de bipèdes depuis Adam ont mérité le nom d'homme.
