Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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I just love to work hard.
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In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'
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If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.
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To find out where the origin of symmetry is would be to find out if God exists.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
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When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.
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It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.
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It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.
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I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.
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There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
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To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.
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Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone you meet or even think of... Happiness, miracles and inner peace will follow.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
