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 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 knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
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Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.
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To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you will meditate your question with care and frame it with precision.
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A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
