Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
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I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
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So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.
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'She loves this newt-nuzzling blister.'
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But since he hadThe genuis to be loved, why let him haveThe justice to be honoured in his grave.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.
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Put not your trust in princes.
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Some people criticize North Koreans and ask, 'Are they stupid? How can they believe those ridiculous things?' But I say, It doesn't matter if you're smart: if you were born in North Korea, you would be exactly like us. We don't know what freedom is. We have never enjoyed it.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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When Coleridge said that all men are born either Platonists or Aristotelians, he was saying that all men tend to be either acoustic or visual in their sensory bias.
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The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
