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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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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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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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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'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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I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.
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I grew up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. At the time I was growing up with my father - before it was gentrified - it was a very rough neighborhood. He felt that if I got into or started embracing the rap culture, I would be one step closer to being on the streets.
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Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
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I do think the love-gone-wrong songs go over better, only because those melodies and those lyrics have a different feel that you can grasp on if you're a torch singer like myself.
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I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
