Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
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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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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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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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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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I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.
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I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
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People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.
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Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
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Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray." Oh. "You get me the nicest things." "Anybody can get jewelry. Posers
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A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.
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Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
