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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• When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun.

  

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• Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

  

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• Harte sent one of her revived men after him, and Pat sent him back in boxes.

  

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• A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.

  

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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