Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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Two children die. An accident and a suicide amongst so many murders. A chance death and a death of self-recrimination. Smut and the Skipping Girl have been aping their parents and elders - perhaps they could now teach them a lesson - all the machinations and game-playing and adjusting for sexual and emotional positioning is not worth the effort.
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What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
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May Allah have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.
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The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed; it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are far more likely to have compassion for others. Anything that takes us close to true compassion takes us closer to what will one day be an experience of even greater joy.
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This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.
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The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
