Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

• Crime
• Sensibility
• Unhappiness

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• I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

  

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• We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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• One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!

  

  Zendaya
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• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
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  • Always
  • Down

• I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Blood
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• I like performing in front of big crowds.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Like
  • Big
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• Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Smoking
  • Statistics
  • Leading

• My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Life
  • She
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• The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede - I related, because mine was, too.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Father
  • Action
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• Nowadays, people have an open mind vis-a-vis new artists like Meghan Trainor, Nico & Vinz, Hozier - there are hits coming out of everywhere.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • People
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• Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Trust

• There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Dumb

• Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Think
  • Always
  • Economy

• My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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  • Funny

• If you want to eat chocolate or cakes, you have to eat it in the morning, for breakfast or lunch - don't eat it in the night.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Breakfast

• I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance.

  

  Faith Hill
  • She
  • Mother
  • Giving

• When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?

  

  William Cowper
  • Tears
  • Willing
  • Flow

• The poor, who see no refuge or hope, cry aloud to a God who makes no reply, and then envy springs up in them when they consider the comforts and opportunities of the rich. They see the rich profligates, the wealthy fools, enjoying themselves unpunished. Turning to the teacher of religion, they meet the reply to their questioning of the justice which will permit such misery to those who did nothing requiring them to be born with no means, no opportunities for education, no capacity to overcome social, racial, or circumstantial obstacles, "It is the will of God."

  

  William Quan Judge
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Obstacles

• Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Crime
  • Sensibility
  • Unhappiness