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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Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
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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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Calm on the bosom of thy God,Fair spirit, rest thee now!
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I've already made several friends-for-life from the latest movies I've worked on, and I know I'll make several more in the years to come.
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Only fools are positive.
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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God has made all men to be happy.
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The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
