Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Quotes to Explore
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
Zig Ziglar
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
E. M. Forster
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
Damien Hirst
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
Yolanda Adams
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
Oscar Wilde
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What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
Donald Fagen
Steely Dan
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I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.
Christopher Guest
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When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a point where I didn't know what to do next, and someone gave me the book, 'How Remarkable Women Lead,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a guide in helping me figure out my career.
Kathryn Minshew
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Triathlon is a sport where the legacy is obvious. Anyone can do it; there are loads you can do. It is a massive participation sport. You can do it as a challenge, for charity or whatever. I believe it will continue to grow, and I will look forward to that happening.
Alistair Brownlee
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Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
Pierre Beaumarchais