Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.
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If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.
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I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.
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When I got with Nina Greenberg, I had been running for a few months already without a trainer. But then she gave me a program and guided me through my runs, showing me how to take care of myself and letting me know I should ice my legs and stretch - stuff I hadn't been doing.
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Whatever limits us we call Fate.
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Along thy wild and willow'd shore.
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The first idea is an imagined thing.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters in.
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It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
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Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.
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I was pretty obnoxious as a kid.
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We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.
