Marquis de Sade Quotes
You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue's absurd and dangerous bonds and by those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery Eugénie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents.Marquis de Sade
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
K. Flay -
I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
Rachael Harris -
The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
Tammy Duckworth -
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Jack Henry Abbott -
'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
Ralph Baer -
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
Gary Larson -
I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
Oscar Pistorius -
I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
Victoria Pendleton -
When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
Wayne Newton -
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
Samuel Daniel
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My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
Sally Ride -
One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
Yami Gautam -
There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
Rachel Shelley -
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
Manmohan Singh -
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
Walter Kirn -
To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson's warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.
Pat Buchanan
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I've become a produce snob. I like to eat food that's in season.
Anton du Beke -
Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.
Aaron Peirsol -
My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.
Mary Oliver -
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
Mae Jemison -
I don't like to look a man in the eye.
Lech Walesa -
You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue's absurd and dangerous bonds and by those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery Eugénie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents.
Marquis de Sade