Marquis de Sade Quotes
Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.
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I was born with an evil face.
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When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
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I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.
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Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.
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I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.
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If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again – which is fine and makes me humble.
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Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.
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I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.
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Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks.
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The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure - like the Pasteur serum for rabies.
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According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.
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Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.
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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
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Today, the reason we haven't found our grail, the key to who we are as women, is because we look for it in worlds of false power, the very worlds that took it away from us in the first place. Neither men nor work can restore our lost scepter. Nothing in this world can take us home. Only the radar in our hearts can do that, and when it does, ... 'We will light up like lamps, and the world will never be the same again.'
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Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
