Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones -
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
Gary Webb -
I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
Jaclyn Smith -
What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
Lady Gaga -
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown -
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
Sam Phillips
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
Harry Anderson -
As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
Warren Bennis -
Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.
Orla Brady -
Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
Orson Welles
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No one wants to see curvy women.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
Samantha Power -
As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.
Gary Lineker -
I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
Sam Dew -
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
Salman Rushdie -
The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.
Talcott Parsons
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I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
Jack White The White Stripes -
People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.
Samantha Shannon -
Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
Laura Moser -
Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand