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Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely (1969)

Lyrics

The song is about a fictional girl named Marie-Claire who grows up to become a member of the Jet Set, and lives in Paris. The lyrics describe her from the perspective of a childhood friend; it is left unclear whether they have remained close. Therhetorical question of the title suggests that her glamorous lifestyle may not have brought Marie-Claire happiness or contentment.

Sarstedt himself was not French, but the song may have benefited from the contemporary awareness in Britain of such singers as Serge Gainsbourg and Jacques Brel.

The lyrics contain a large number of contemporary and other references:
Marlene Dietrich: husky-voiced German actress and singer
Zizi Jeanmaire: French ballerina
Balmain: French designer of elegant fashions
Boulevard Saint-Michel: street in the Latin Quarter famous for bookshops
Rolling Stones: popular English rock and roll band
Sacha Distel: French crooner
Sorbonne: University of Paris
Picasso: Spanish pioneer of modern art
Juan-les-Pins: fashionable beach resort on the French Riviera
Saint Moritz: fashionable ski resort in the Swiss Alps
Napoleon brandy: especially fine aged brandy
Aga Khan: World-travelling Islamic leader and racehorse owner

There is also a slightly longer version (5.20 as opposed to 4.42) with two extra verses that was apparently banned from radio play due to (then) questionable lyrical content.
[edit]Inspiration

It is often suspected that the name Marie-Claire is inspired by the originally French Marie Claire magazine, a women's fashion weekly first published in 1937. One theory says that this song is about the Italian star Sophia Loren, who was abandoned by her father and had a poverty stricken life in Naples.[citation needed] Another theory has the song being inspired by singer and actress Nina van Pallandt.[citation needed] In reality, Peter Sarstedt wrote the song about a girl he fell madly in love with in Vienna in 1965.[citation needed] She died in a hotel fire.[citation needed] The song was written in Copenhagen.

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1. Pursue what you love. Passion is an incredible motivator. It fuels focus, resilience, and perseverance.
2. Do the hardest work first. We all move instinctively toward pleasure and away from pain. Most great performers, Ericsson and others have found, delay gratification and take on the difficult work of practice in the mornings, before they do anything else. That's when most of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions.
3. Practice intensely, without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break. Ninety minutes appears to be the maximum amount of time that we can bring the highest level of focus to any given activity. The evidence is equally strong that great performers practice no more than 4 ½ hours a day.
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Milton Glaser

“The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.”

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Philosophy

Branches of philosophy - the main areas of study:

Metaphysics is the study of the nature of being and the world. Traditional branches are cosmology and
ontology.

Epistemology is concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge, and whether knowledge is possible.
Among its central concerns has been the challenge posed by skepticism and the relationships between
truth, belief, and justification.

Ethics, or "moral philosophy", is concerned with questions of how persons ought to act or if such
questions are answerable. The main branches of ethics are meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied
ethics. Meta-ethics concerns the nature of ethical thought, comparison of various ethical systems,
whether there are absolute ethical truths, and how such truths could be known. Ethics is also associated
with the idea of morality. Plato's early dialogues include a search for definitions of virtue.
Political philosophy is the study of government and the relationship of individuals and communities to
the state. It includes questions about justice, the good, law, property, and the rights and obligations
of the citizen.

Aesthetics deals with beauty, art, enjoyment, sensory-emotional values, perception, and matters of taste
and sentiment.

Logic is the study of valid argument forms. Beginning in the late 19th century, mathematicians such as
Frege focused on a mathematical treatment of logic, and today the subject of logic has two broad
divisions: mathematical logic (formal symbolic logic) and what is now called philosophical logic.



Philosophy of mind deals with the nature of the mind and its relationship to the body, and is typified by disputes between dualism and materialism. In recent years there has been increasing similarity betweenthis branch of philosophy and cognitive science.


Philosophy of language is inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language.

Philosophy of religion is a branch of philosophy that asks questions about religion.

Most academic subjects have a philosophy, for example the philosophy of science, the philosophy of
mathematics, the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of law, and the philosophy of history. In addition,
a range of academic subjects have emerged to deal with areas which would have historically been the
subject of philosophy. These include psychology, anthropology and sociology.

James Lovelock - A Final Warning: by Nature Video

Foolish is not a value judgement like calling something stupid, EXPLAINED.

The original circle contained the word stupid which is a bit harsh because it can be taken to mean lacking common sense or intelligence.

Foolish is an adjective meaning silly, unwise or absurd.  This is a gentler correction to make when someone is caught in a vicious cycle like happens with addictions..