Marquis de Lafayette Quotes
All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!
Marquis de Lafayette
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte
We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
Owen Chamberlain
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Gabrielle Giffords
Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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Bat for Lashes
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Florence and the Machine
It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
Samantha Bee
Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
Kate McKinnon
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
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We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people.
Wafa Sultan
All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!
Marquis de Lafayette
