Madame de Stael Quotes
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.Madame de Stael
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
Fat Joe -
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck -
In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
Fedor Emelianenko -
I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
AJ McLean -
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson -
People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
Taron Egerton
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
Pat Meehan -
Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
Camille Paglia -
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
Ferdinand Mount -
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
Zack Snyder -
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
Xenophon
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I'm not graceful.
Karlie Kloss -
I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
Mahershala Ali -
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
E. M. Forster -
I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
W. Bruce Cameron -
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
Orlando Bloom -
I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
Lady Gaga
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This perception that we can be stars without any work and just appear is rubbish.
Darcey Bussell -
I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried all the way home. I have seen them get promoted and relegated. I played for them for eight years. I even got a group of like-minded fans and friends to stump up a few quid to salvage the club when they went into liquidation.
Gary Lineker -
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.
Chuck Palahniuk -
I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town.
Ann McLane Kuster -
This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.
Yehuda Levi -
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
Madame de Stael