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I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.
- Huey Lewis
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As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.
- Bong Joon-ho
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I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.
- Ray Conniff
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I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
- Malachy McCourt
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We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.
- Pico Iyer
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Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.
- Allen West
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The best relatively contemporary portrayal of a courtesan that I've ever seen was probably in 'Children of Paradise,' a film that was made during the Nazi occupation of France, made in secret actually.
- Alexander Chee
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
- A. Scott Berg
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We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
- Gloria Swanson
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When I was a boy, it was paradise to go hunting with my father.
- Roberto Baggio
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No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.
- David Hilbert
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Crypto today is a libertarian paradise. If you send your money to the wrong place, it's gone. If you send it to a merchant and don't receive the goods, you have no recourse. This is cash. Treat it as such.
- Gil Penchina
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Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer's paradise.
- Raymond Bonner
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In about 1975-76, I lived with a woman in a little hut with some fruit trees, and I had some of the most extraordinary, happy times of my life. Apart from the horrendous Queensland police, who were corrupt and venal, it really was like living in paradise.
- Peter Carey
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When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with the techno-cultural society. They believe in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits.
- Douglas Tompkins
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For a boy of ten, used to the coal bings and rust-coloured burns of Cowdenbeath, the fields and woodland of Kingswood, with its overgrown but stately avenue of copper-barked sequoias, felt like a local version of paradise.
- John Burnside
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When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
- Sean Scully
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Principe is paradise.
- Nuno Espirito Santo
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Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
- Ashley Judd
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My favourite place in South Korea is Jeju Island: it's a tropical paradise with sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and the magnificent Geomunoreum lava tube system of underground caves.
- Lee Hyeon-seo
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The Travel Channel had success with their 'Food Paradise' series, '10 Best Places to Pig Out' and those types of specials, so they knew there was a market for comfort food and wanted to develop a show around it.
- Adam Richman
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My later jobs as a waitress felt like a posh paradise after my first one at Boston Market.
- Kat Timpf
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On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.
- John Dyer
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I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.
- Helen Oyeyemi
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For me, Iran was paradise, and I believe it's a paradise still, but only if you don't have political problems. If you have a political problem, paradise turns into hell.
- Golshifteh Farahani
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If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.
- Bonnie Bedelia
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I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.
- Andrew Pyper
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
- Callan McAuliffe
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Go-go is so drum and Congo based. It's almost like music from Africa. The drums like on 'Planet Paradise' are deeply African-rooted. It's really bouncy and the same speed as go-go music. That's an example of the influence go-go had on me.
- Goldlink
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The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.
- Margaret Keane
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Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.
- John Jewel
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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
- Marguerite Young
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Privacy is paradise.
- Holly Hunter
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The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can see the roundness of our home, our home planet. And it's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen. It's like looking into Heaven. It's paradise.
- Michael J. Massimino
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There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.
- Janine di Giovanni
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By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.
- Michel Onfray
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It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
- John Drinkwater
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Africa is a paradise. You meet people who look at life differently. They love the adventure.
- Jocelyn Wildenstein
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It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
- Robert Wilson Lynd
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When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
- Lawrence Lessig
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Found my tropical paradise here in Bali.
- Pia Wurtzbach
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When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.
- Marilynne Robinson
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
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If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
- Nikita Khrushchev
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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
- Laurie Anderson
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Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
- Julio Cortazar
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
- Said Nursi
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Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.
- Immaculee Ilibagiza
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I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.
- Bruno Mars
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Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
- Bruno Mars
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I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. 'This Side of Paradise' - that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays - I felt like he'd written the book just for me.
- Ron Carlson
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Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
- Matthew Simpson
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I never thought I'd go back on 'Paradise' or 'The Bachelorette' or 'The Bachelor,' but I think I have learned in life that it is best to sit back and let things come your way, and take each situation on its own.
- Nick Viall
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On 'Death In Paradise,' I had a CGI pet lizard and had to react to nothing, which was hideously embarrassing.
- Ben Miller
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The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.
- Dee Brown
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The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.
- Mario Batali
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I'm a trumpet player, so I always carry a pocket trumpet in case there's an opportunity to jam with the locals. I was in Guadeloupe last year filming 'Death in Paradise,' and I played all over the island and had the best time.
- Colin Salmon
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Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my brand new driver's license to spend as much time as possible in Milwaukee's Renaissance Book Shop, a tumbledown five-story warehouse that the city was finally able to close down in 2011 for safety reasons. It was my teenage paradise.
- Rick Perlstein
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
- Ian Watson
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We set out with nothing but music as our dream, but we didn't know where we were going, whether we were going uphill or downhill, or as we took a break after becoming tired, whether around the corner there was a paradise or a pitfall. That's how we started.
- J-Hope
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It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.
- Rebecca Mader
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Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
- George William Russell
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
- Karl Popper
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We have been teaching 'Paradise Lost' and 'Julius Caesar' to the students but we are not teaching them 'Kalidas' or Indian drama and epics.
- Gulzar
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I spent about eight months of my year on 'Death in Paradise', so it doesn't leave a massive amount of time to do other stuff.
- Kris Marshall
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With the proliferation of social media, selfies are one of those modern diseases that unfortunately come with the territory, but they are beneficial in getting the word around about the show, and the popularity of 'Death In Paradise' has just exploded.
- Kris Marshall
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I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.
- Frei Otto
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
- Abu Bakr
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An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
- Robert South
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
- Camille Claudel
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
- Alain Badiou
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To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise.
- Emilia Wickstead
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
- Samuel Johnson
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
- Montesquieu
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
- George Santayana
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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
- Horace Mann
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Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
- Dario Argento
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A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.
- Esther Dyson
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I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.
- Thierry Henry
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I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.
- Irina Shayk
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Move to California. Malibu is paradise.
- David Geffen
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England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
- John Florio
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The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
- Max Muller
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
- Jean Baudrillard
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To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
- Augustus Hare
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The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.
- Alphonsus Liguori
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We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.
- Robert Wyatt
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
- Novalis
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The Bachelor'... and 'The Bachelorette'... and 'Bachelor in Paradise'... and the 'After the Final Rose ceremony'. I love a competition dating show.
- Erin Foster
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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
- Phillips Brooks
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Your library is your paradise.
- Desiderius Erasmus
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The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
- Alvar Aalto
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Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.
- Anne Bancroft
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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh
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One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise.
- Nina Garcia
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
- William Penn
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
- Victor Hugo
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May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
- Rumi
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I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant 'centers of resort': the soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers - extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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