Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
Laura Linney
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
Taiye Selasi
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
Nazanin Boniadi
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
Oriana Fallaci
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
Rachel Tucker
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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
A. Philip Randolph
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All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.
Imtiaz Ali
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
Maisie Williams
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An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.
Camille Paglia
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
R. Kelly
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Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
Walter Gilbert
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Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.
Barack Obama
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The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
J. M. Coetzee
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The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.
Edie Sedgwick
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Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.
Warren Farrell
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Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.
Sacha Guitry
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A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.
Claud Cockburn
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Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.
George Luks
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
Adam Beach
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Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the tree in terms of football.
Gary Lineker
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This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along-you want there to be some room for it to fit in.
Orson Scott Card
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I think I was a pretty anxious dreamer, maybe a fundamentally lonely kid.
Karyn Kusama
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If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand