Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
Ian Frazier -
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
Aaron Carter -
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
Naomi Scott -
Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
Carli Lloyd -
Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
Samantha Power -
Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
Pat Buchanan
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
Dakota Johnson -
The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
Macy Gray -
A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet.
Eden Hazard -
Strong women, that's who I really respect.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
She grunted. 'Nothing unusual?''That’s right.''Well, if you ask me, that’s pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.'
Orson Scott Card -
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
Leo Tolstoy
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Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.
Christina Romer -
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.
Phil Robertson -
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
Bob Lilly -
Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.
Jim Sensenbrenner -
What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.
Derek Bok
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Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.
Carol Burnett -
Take charity work for example; the motivation of my various charitable activities is neither for fame nor profits. It is my sincere wish that, through my efforts, more people can realize how important it is to protect our planet and to start to act for a change.
Li Bingbing -
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
Pope Benedict XVI -
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.
H. L. Mencken -
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.
Penelope Spheeris -
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand