Madame Roland Quotes
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
Madame Roland
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
Karl Marx
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
Walter Kirn
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
Aasif Mandvi
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
C. S. Lewis
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
Larry Hagman
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I always do my interviews face to face.
Rachel Weisz
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
Rafael Nadal
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
Halima Aden
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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
Harry Browne
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
T. J. Miller
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
Dana Perino
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It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
David Harris
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It's nonsense. If, in fact, putting one out of four people in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid created 12,000 jobs and $30 billion in economic prosperity, why wouldn't we put every single person in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid? We'd create 48,000 jobs by that logic and $120 billion worth of economic advantage.
Matt Bevin
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For eight months, from January to August of 2007, I filmed with Anna Wintour and her team at 'Vogue' as they created the September 2007 issue of the magazine.
R. J. Cutler
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I really love to run, and then right after, get some good lifting in. Then, of course, follow all that up with some healthy meals and protein.
Blake Jenner
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Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.
Patrick Henry
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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
Madame Roland
