Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.
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Acting is a form of confusion.
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I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.
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Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
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I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.
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I followed lectures on the history, geography, economy and political organization of Sweden.
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
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When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.
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In my judgment excellence and wealth are direct opposites.
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A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
