Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (Marquise de Pompadour) Quotes
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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They gave me 18 experiments to complete in my 10 days in the ISS. That's a lot. Everyone told me I didn't have to complete all of them, that it wasn't expected of me. But I knew everyone was watching me, so I gave up meals and sleep and completed all 18 experiments. It's a very Korean thing to do.
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That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
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It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
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Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
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I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.
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I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
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The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
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I don't like losing anyways.
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I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.
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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
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As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.
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My goal … not to go back to Rembrandt … but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
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The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
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He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.
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The stakeholder approach to business sees integration rather than separation, and sees how things fit together.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
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The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
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Canada is useful only to provide me with furs.
