Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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I had some great experiences, but there were times when films didn't do well right, especially after 'Vicky Donor.'
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I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
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Precognition or self-deception?
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Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
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I think it's time, not for the Washington Redskins to change their name but for the Democratic Party to change its name. Because all you have to do is go online and look up the history of the Democratic Party. It's one of oppressing African-Americans. It's one of supporting slavery and the horrors that occurred in the United States.
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Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.
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I watch the Oscars in my pajamas like everybody else.
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I'm in the major league now.
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User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.
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Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.
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When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.
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We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.
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Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselves, right? And we both - somehow, we're both recording engineers, that's how we got our break.
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A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
