Camille Claudel Quotes
I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
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I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.
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Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.
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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
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Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?
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I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.
