Claude Vorilhon Quotes
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.Claude Vorilhon
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
Zubin Mehta -
The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
Camila Alves -
We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
Patricia Hewitt -
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King -
I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
Laini Taylor
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
Ian K. Smith -
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Natan Sharansky -
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
Samuel Morse -
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
Sam Palladio -
I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
Dalai Lama -
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
Young Thug
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
Walter Cronkite -
The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
Park Chan-wook -
My mom and I are very close.
Lady Gaga -
Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
Valerie Plame -
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
Samantha Power -
How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?
Lester B. Pearson -
I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.
W. C. Fields -
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.
Claude Vorilhon