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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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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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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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 was going to call it a mistake, but you could argue that there are no mistakes in war, only fortunate and less fortunate events.
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Vita brevis nulli superest qui tempus in illaquaerendae sibi mortis habet.
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Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thin slice of whole-wheat bread. The same thing. I don't want to get fat. And I want to keep my fitness.
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The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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It's great to just reach out and give something to the fans when they're hungry for it.
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
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Cleanliness is the scourge of art.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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'Glee' is very easy to clown because I feel like it's just crumbling. 'Smash!' 'Smash' is the ultimate. I love it because I'm all about theater. I did plays in high school and college, and it totally brings me back to that feeling: how excited you get on opening night, how it sucks when you're not learning the dance moves.
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Calomniez, calomniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.
