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 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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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.
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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
