Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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I adored my father.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.
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The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
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All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
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My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power-not with ground forces.
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Philosophieren ist: falsche Argumente zurückweisen.
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
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I think because I felt so sad I had to bring out my feelings, and try to create music that would make me and all my friends feel better.
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.
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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
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With the polarization of points of view around significant political and social issues, sports is a place where people can sort of talk about something together. And I think that is important to people.
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People who wish to be lost always get their way.
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Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
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Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
