Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They're some good people, you know. They want to see you do good. But at the same time, they work for the team, you know. They're trying to do whatever they can to get you back on the field and make your team look good.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.
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I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.
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I think we're always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.
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What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
