Cyrano de Bergerac Quotes
I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.
Quotes to Explore
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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I always had a fascination with twins.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.
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I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
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Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.
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African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
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I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.
