Madeleine de Souvre Quotes
It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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Never having children is a huge regret of mine.
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Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility, and openness to the world around you, people have to respond because those same truths are instilled in them.
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The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.
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It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.
