Madame de Stael Quotes

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

Madame de Stael

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• Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.

  

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• Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

  

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• I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

  

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• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

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• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

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• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

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• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

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• Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

  

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• The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

  

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• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

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• Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

  

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• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

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• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

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• I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.

  

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• But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

  

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• I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

  

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• You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.

  

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• In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others.

  

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• When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

  

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• He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.

  

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• I haven't shut up, I think, since I was born. I tend to talk a lot, and I sing constantly, and I know that it can be kind of annoying, but I would say I sound a lot like my mom.

  

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• '(By moving) I'm making sounds on the drums of spacetime'… 'Space itself wobbles and rumbles like a drum... Black holes can bang on spacetime like mallets on a drum'

  

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• Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Men
  • May
  • She