Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
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'I don't want to make a mistake,' said the Will softly. 'Better not to make a decision than to make a mistake.' 'The whole House is going to fall down if you don't make a decision!' Arthur argued.
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I try to search for roles where the character is not dependent on how she looks, but it is hard because I didn't know anyone in this industry, so I started as an extra and fought.
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So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can't do it.' But he's been told his whole life, 'You have to go get 40 if you want to be one of the top dogs.' It's my goal to build a lane where you can be a top dog, and you don't gotta go get that 40. You can go get four and still be a top dog.
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Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.
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Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.
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At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
