Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
Randy West
Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
Karen Elson
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
Nancy Pearcey
'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
Magnus Scheving
Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
Carly Patterson
I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
Victoria Pendleton
Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.
Warren Farrell
You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States. And that is truly remarkable.
Hillary Clinton
Many will there be who will give up work and labour and poverty of life and goods, and will go to live among wealth in splendid buildings, declaring that this is the way to make themselves acceptable to God.
Leonardo da Vinci
Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.
Alexander McCall Smith
Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving - HOW NOT TO DO IT.
Charles Dickens
Così fa ch'ella un poco il duol raffrena;Ch'avendo ove sfogarlo, è meno acerbo.
Ludovico Ariosto
When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.'
Mary Matalin
Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady Gaga
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Eduard Hanslick
I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.
James Franco
I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of power because of big government." Then some Democrats tend to respond by saying, "No, you're wrong, you're not out of power." It's a sense that doesn't resonate with people's lived experience.
Zephyr Teachout
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand