Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.
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I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.
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I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
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It's hard for me to take care of myself, let's put it that way. I am my last priority.
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Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
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Distances did nothing. It’s all here.
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Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.
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I work hard and support myself.
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I started off as a recording engineer and a beatmaker. I was this skater kid that would skateboard to auditions, and then I would use the money I'd make and buy a bunch of equipment and make a bunch of beats. I still am that kid, just with a little more money.
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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
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We are not here to laugh.
