Madeleine de Souvre Quotes
Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that gives them noble blood.Madeleine de Souvre
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
Iain Glen -
We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
Walt Mossberg -
A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
Pamela Meyer -
My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
Kailash Kher -
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
Larry Flynt -
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted Engstrom
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
Vince Flynn -
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
Ira Glass -
I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
Taylor Swift -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright
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I don't watch TV.
Famke Janssen -
Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
Natalie Goldberg -
How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
Edie Campbell -
Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
M. J. Rose -
No man fails who does his best.
Orison Swett Marden -
I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
Taylor Kitsch
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My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.
Elliott Erwitt -
Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
E. F. Benson -
Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
Walter Gropius -
No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a long overdue contribution to the recording of not just black history, but American history.
Earl G. Graves, Sr. -
Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that gives them noble blood.
Madeleine de Souvre