Madame de Stael Quotes
in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.
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He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.
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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
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This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
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in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.
