Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.
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Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.
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The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.
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I don't think one party has a bad vision over the other party. I have no doubts that every Indian and every Indian political leadership would like to see this country get to a much better level. We would all like to see inclusive growth.
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A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
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Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
