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“Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.”
Source : Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont “Beauty and the BeastLa Belle et la Bête English-French Parallel Text Edition”, Lulu.com
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“I want you to hear how I can tell stories. I want you to hear how I can make these records about these females and make them feel every way I can. I want you to feel my magic. I want you to respect me and my artistry.”
Source : Source: www.artistdirect.com
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“It may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual.”
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“The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.”
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“My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.”
Source : "Woman on the verge". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.
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“There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.”
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“It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats”
Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
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“For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard the first note of "The Weight" on WNEW radio. It was when I was eight years old and Music From Big Pink came out. They were my favorite band always. They had a profound influence on me and on my becoming a musician.”