Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
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Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
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I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers' problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.
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I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
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Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.
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If you you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.
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If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.
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You are creating a Frankenstein. - Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, concerned about the growing strength of the Islamist movement, told President George H. W. Bush.
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If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
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Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren't packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human-however imperfectly-and fully embrace the pursuit that you've embarked on. (Hays translation)
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The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
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I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.
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Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.
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I certainly would not deny that the Tea Party, the issues that they have looked at are certainly important to me as well... debt and deficit and recognition of the Constitution.
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Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.
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I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'
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It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.
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Calomniez, calomniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.
