Charles de Gaulle Quotes
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
Quotes to Explore
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.
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I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation.
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The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
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A day on a film set is maddening.
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I wouldn't consider myself a so-called 'celebrity.' Arrrgh, for the love of God!
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.
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Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
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It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
