Charles de Gaulle Quotes
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
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You cannot undo your acts. If you have depraved another's will, and injured another's soul, it may be in the grace of God that hereafter you will be personally accepted, and the consequence of your guilt inwardly done away; but your penitence cannot undo the evil you have done. The forgiveness of God - the blood of Christ itself - does not undo the past.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
