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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We use the word 'synoptic' to talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it really means 'seeing together,' because they all have a similar perspective. Matthew and Luke - whoever wrote those Gospels - used Mark as a focus and as a basic story. So all of them have a lot in common.
Elaine Pagels -
You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you see in the movies. But when you actually become an actor, you're like, 'Oh, wait, this is actually only a small portion of the storytelling. If I want to really tell a story, I'd want to be a director.'
Emily Meade -
I think of myself as a really happy person.
David Guterson -
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.
Jack Keane -
We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.
Ken Calvert -
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