Peter Abelard Quotes

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

Peter Abelard

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LifeMenMiserableWhoPassions

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

FriendshipLoveGeniusDifference

I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.

Jerome Charyn

LifeMy LifeI CanSayHollywood

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.

John Edwards

BusinessFactsFinancialInformation

The journey of Marco Polo is the hero's journey, one that all cultures across the globe can relate to.

John Fusco

JourneyHeroCulturesPoloGlobe

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

Amy Waldman

CompetitionNameDesignAmerican

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

Trey Parker

SongYouDownKindWritePiano

The Dumas memoirs - which I also discovered when I was a kid - had a big impact on me.

Tom Reiss

MeImpactKidBigMemoirsWhich

I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.

Ron Rash

MindCoachTrackBeingField

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

ExerciseResultReasonOwnCall

I remember an interview so terrible with CNN's Jon Klein, I nearly blurted out, 'Forget it, I am a loser!' But I didn't need to say it. My face and posture did.

Mika Brzezinski

I AmFaceLoserRememberForgetSay

I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.

Mike DeWine

FindTextingSomethingFineKids

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up.

Missy Peregrym

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