Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
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I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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I just want to do my job.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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You look marvelous!
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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But I think we need the international market.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
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I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
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Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.
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If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.
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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
