Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure.
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There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
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The fascination of somebody with original creative gifts is something that's always drawn me. I get attached to them, but I can't call it being in love, because the words are so debased.
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Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.
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Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.
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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
