Marquis de Sade Quotes
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there's so much that's relatable in it.
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Now, there are more and more Asian models and opportunities to understand Asian beauty.
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Certainly, some of the anti-bank rhetoric has shifted a little bit, but on either side of the aisle, there seems to be different tacts. On one side of the aisle, you see a proposed scaling back of Dodd-Frank. On the other, a proposed reinstatement of Glass-Steagall.
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If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'
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My mother had a master's degree and had been a schoolteacher before she started having kids at 30. But my father's family were landowners, farmer-merchants. Moneymaking was extremely important, like one of those semi-rapacious families in Lillian Hellman, where they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
