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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I don't want to do a gimmick. It's a bummer that that's how it is. I would say, personally speaking, consuming music now is harder than it was before. It's like being stuck in a slot machine. There's just so much noise. It's just constant noise. It's harder to clear your head and give the time to music that a lot of it really deserves. It's really crazy how different your relationship to an album or music becomes, even if it's digital, if you spend the $7 to $10 on it. It forms this relationship where you're not just going to throw it away.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.
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Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.
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I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
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Calomniez, calomniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.
