Madame de Stael Quotes
... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.Madame de Stael
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
Cam Gigandet -
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
Magnus Larsson -
During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
Rachel McAdams -
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
Aaron Neville -
There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
Barry Diller
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
Zig Ziglar -
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
J. C. Ryle -
My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
Walter Dean Myers -
I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
Olivia Williams -
If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
Oprah Winfrey -
The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
Naveen Jain
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Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
Pat Robertson -
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
Gavin Bryars -
If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
Larry David -
I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed - the whole thing supposedly takes place in her bedroom at her parents house in Duluth, MN. I thought it was great and really strange - to have a comedy special without having to leave your bed.
Dana Schutz -
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
Nate Berkus -
When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
Hari Kunzru
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A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
Ted Ligety -
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Honore de Balzac -
I actually enjoy being on my own, because it allows me to do what I do.
Bill Kirchen -
You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost.
Scott Aukerman -
I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.
Jeremy Scott -
... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
Madame de Stael