Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Jean de la Bruyere

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ManFriendsPerfectHimMissGive

I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.'

Joe Biden

FaithGreatWifePeopleAmerican

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

Jill Abramson

MotherMeSisterSoundOlder Sister

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

Andy Murray

SleepNightHoursNormally

Being described as a stupid bureaucrat with no link to representative democracy is difficult to take.

Jean-Claude Juncker

DemocracyStupidDifficultTakeLink

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

Stephen Dobyns

SurpriseReachUnexpectedPlaceTry

I had to work on the fundamentals of the game because in league, the position I played, it was just bash and crash.

Sonny Bill Williams

WorkGameFundamentalsPositionJust

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

Tracey Ullman

LoveLovedLateLilyI LoveCarol

My feeling is, if you're going to be called a celebrity, you might as well use it for some good. It's better to testify for school lunches in front of Congress than get drunk in a bar somewhere and misbehave.

Tom Colicchio

GoodSchoolBetterYouDrunkBar

Simplicity is the key.

Ritchie Blackmore

SimplicityKey

No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.

Rusty Schweickart

TodayResponsibilityGovernmentWorld

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

Martin Parr

AbilityPhotographDrownWouldThem

I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising, it's just a part of being a girl in 2013.

Lorde

GirlPeopleFindSayFeminismJust

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