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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I should be, right now, a normal 17-year-old sitting in class in high school. Instead, I'm recording, and it's so exciting for me. I can't imagine anything I'd rather be doing right now.
Grace Martine Tandon
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There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
Elmer Bernstein
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By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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He taught people with his best way. He showed his beauty. He was all good so peace be on him and his family.
Saadi
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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