Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.
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It shouldn't matter WHO you love; it should matter HOW you love. As long as you love someone with all your heart, than that's all that truly matters.
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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
