Madeleine de Souvre Quotes
There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Movies don't have borders.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.
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There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost nothing in common except for a love of music - that is really rejuvenating.
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You talk through what exactly happened to Howard Dean on the campaign trail, what Bill Clinton must have lived through, what the daily grind of doing what these people have to do. And they can never lose their temper, they can never be tired, and they can never slip up, or it's on-camera, and it's everywhere - and it's over.
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Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.
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There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.
