Charles Fourier Quotes
Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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Traveling is the worst for skin, and it shows instantly. Once you're working non-stop, you can instantly see it.
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People will say candy is recession-proof, and we're definitely seeing nostalgic candies coming about, and people want that sugar rush and that nostalgic happiness, like their childhood times.
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There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering of others, who are motivated to go to West Africa despite the risks of infection and death. And doctors and nurses face those risks every day regardless of their setting.
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My father speaks for himself, through his music.
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.