Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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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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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I want to be a major force.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
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I have a couture body.
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Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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The first colours which made a strong impression on me were light juice green, white, crimson red, black and yellow ocher. These memories go back to the third year of my life. I saw these colours on various objects houses and roofs, in Russia which are not as clear in my mind as the colours themselves.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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The government shouldn't step in at the first stage and create land banks. Industry should buy the land as much as they can, and if they get stuck, then the government should step in.
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A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
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There have been men who have proposed to me to return to slavery the black warriors of Port Hudson and Olustee to their masters to conciliate the South. I should be damned in time and in eternity for so doing. The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
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You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.
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What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
