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.
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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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.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of 'Orthodoxy, True and False' and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
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At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.
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Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games.
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This is something I feel very strongly and very passionately about. Together I want us to pave the road from Ankara to Brussels. 'Turkey must be welcome in EU, insists Cameron'
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I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure.
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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.
