Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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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?
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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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.
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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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.
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Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.
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A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.
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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.
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If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming flesh living on the earth, dying on the cross for the sins of the world, being buried, and being raised from the dead - yours and mine and everybody else's problems will be solved.
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Technology is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us.
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No one anticipates divorce when they're exchanging vows, and it can be devastating emotionally and financially. To ease the financial side of the blow, you need to maintain your financial identity in your relationship. That means having your own credit history - you need your own credit card - and your own savings and retirement accounts.
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Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.
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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.
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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
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The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts.
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If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
