Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.
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Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.
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I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
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I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his superb classic Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets, he has surpassed even himself. He uniquely fills the gap between rich-country-obsessed macro- and micro-obsessed developing-country analysis. No student of the macroeconomics of development will henceforward be able to do without this book.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
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Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
