Marquis de Sade Quotes
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.Marquis de Sade
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
Joanne Rowling -
You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
Larry Brown -
We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
Larry Hogan -
There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
Abel Ferrara -
I've been doing African dance all my life.
Naima Adedapo -
Haredi youth are smart, and they are going to bring a big benefit to the high-tech industry.
Naftali Bennett
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I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!
Damian Woetzel -
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
Carlisle Floyd -
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Earl Nightingale -
Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
Imre Kertesz -
For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
Tatum O'Neal
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
Irvine Welsh -
I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
Patrice O'Neal -
I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.
Karine Vanasse -
6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.
Yitzhak Navon -
I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
Walter Dean Myers
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Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.
Danny Thomas -
ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq. We have to take it seriously. They've shown in Paris what they can do in an organized fashion.
Barack Obama -
I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
Albert Brooks -
...it seems to be a law of the human constitution that those that deserve shall not have, and those that do not deserve shall get everything that is worth having. It is a sufficiently crazy arrangement, it seems to me.
Mark Twain -
You can't edit yesterday's paper.
Pete Hamill -
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Marquis de Sade