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 don't worry about my offense. If I get good, open looks the ball will go in. I just worry about how I'm going to help this team win games by playing on the other end.
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My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.
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In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle.
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I like very much to put on fashion shows.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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.
