Madeleine de Souvre Quotes
It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.
Madeleine de Souvre
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
Oriana Fallaci
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
Ottessa Moshfegh
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
Olivier Theyskens
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
Carla Bruni
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
Jack Herer
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
Maisie Williams
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
Xenophon
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
Laura Bell Bundy
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
Rachel Dratch
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
Natalia Vodianova
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John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music.
Halston Sage
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
Nathan Myhrvold
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Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
Parker Palmer
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I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day off antibiotics. They take a lot out of you, but it was kind of an advantage ... Instead of concentrating on everything, I was concentrating more on the breathing and relaxing. That also really helped me.
Gabrielle Daleman
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The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
Naomi Wolf
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
Octavia Spencer
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It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.
Madeleine de Souvre
