Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
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The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.
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I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:At whatever time the deed took place-Macavity wasn't there.
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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
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Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
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I need you, and with your love I'm free And truly, you know you're alright with me.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.
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Gratitude is not a limited resource, nor is it costly. It is abundant as air. We breathe it in but forget to exhale.
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Any woman who has attempted to slip a credit card into an inch-deep trouser pocket knows about the annoying puzzle of women's clothing: Pockets rarely work.
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Young Joel Benenson supported - well, I - you know, look, I supported Bobby Kennedy, not Eugene McCarthy in '68. I mean, that's where I landed.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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Truth is the precious harvest of the earth. But once, when harvest waved upon a land, The noisome cankerworm and caterpillar, Locusts, and all the swarming foul-born broods, Fastened upon it with swift, greedy jaws, And turned the harvest into pestilence, Until men said, What profits it to sow?
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When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.
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I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.
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It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.
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A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.
