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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There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
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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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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
