Maximilien Robespierre Quotes
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.
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Living in the projects helped me with this role.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
